Quotes About Reality

You're going to mess this up, do you know that? You don't even see what's in front of you. You're like everybody else. No, I'm not. You're dreaming backward.

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.

Certo che non è giusto. Niente in questa faccenda è giusto. La vita non lo è. E tutti i nostri pensieri su come dovrebbe essere non servono a un cavolo, a quanto pare. Tanto vale che tu lo sappia subito.

Regie Gibson said, "Our problem as Americans is we actually hate history. . . . What we love is nostalgia. We love to remember things exactly the way they didn't happen. History itself is often an indictment. And people? We hate to be indicted.

There was always one. Every village seemed to have one young woman who believed her beauty could somehow magically protect her from a monster. Somehow, they would be special enough to tame the Beast. They were always wrong.

Leah, wake up. Dougal sat on the edge of her bed and patted her shoulder. Mmm, she moaned. What is it,Howard? Howard? Are ye dreaming of Howard? Her eyes flickered open. Dougal? Aye, 'tis me, yer true love, Dougal. She smiled drowsily at him. Yes, that's true.

There is no form to this story because it is true, or at least as close to true as I have been able to make it.

You never really know. Lately Kevin has been bothering himself with the idea that nothing is certain, nothing can be proven. Not one thing, not in all the world. The sun will rise tomorrow. Prove it. The sun rose this morning. Prove it. The sun is in the sky. Prove it. There's a sun at all. Prove it. The world is like a box of Kleenex, every doubt pulling another along behind it. You can always find a new reason to distrust the facts.

Most people seemed to think that you fell asleep and then started dreaming, but as far as Minny could tell, the process was exactly the reverse — you started dreaming and that enabled you to fall asleep.

It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.

I'm a big fan of dreams. Unfortunately, dreams are our first casualty in life - people seem to give them up, quicker than anything, for a 'reality.

There's a giant gap between what you imagine yourself doing and what you're capable of doing and it hurts pretty bad when you fall into that gap

So, I've decided to take him down to the tavern where he can meet real people and hear real adventures. That'll cure him of that fairy-tale nonsense before it sets in too deeply. (I'm no stranger to nonsense, having done plenty of it over the course of my own life, but at least I know the difference.)

Dreams shine brightest when they remain only dreams, because reality becomes prosaic all too quickly.

Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think. A

The moment is brief, barely enough for a flutter of the pulse but long enough for her illusory self to catch up with the reality of the woman gazing back from the shopwindow. It is a little devastating. This is what ageing is, she thinks as she follows Isabelle into the store, these random unkind moments that catch you when you least expect them.

Stories close the gap and reconcile between what we want life to be and how it actually is.

If I've learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.