Quotes About Reality

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

People are afraid of shadows. People are even more afraid of being in the shadow. But without a shadow, life will be two dimensional.

Unfortunately, there is much mediocre philosophy in circulation, and so one sometimes hears it said that There is no such thing as a family, only the individuals who make up the family. This is analogous to the claim that There is no such thing as a table, only the atoms that make up the table—which we also hear on occasion. But in reality, there are not only atoms and molecules. There are also tables.

The truth is an accepted lie.

O sonho volta para dentro da realidade. A realidade, para dentro do sonho. E... a verdade... para dentro do coração. É o coração que dá forma à pessoa. Quando cada um, voluntariamente, criar a imagem de si mesmo... todos recuperarão sua forma humana.

And when we cannot fully understand the significance of something, when we cannot validate the total experience with the senses – can't see, can't taste, can't smell, can't touch, can't hear, and cannot conceive – we are left with a choice: to deny or to believe.

Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? When spirits ebb, when life's enchanting scenes Their lustre lose, and lessen in our sight, As lands and cities, with their glittering spires, To the poor shatter'd bark by sudden storm Thrown off to sea, and soon to perish there? Will toys amuse? No: thrones will then be toys, And earth and skies seem dust upon the scale.

Perception is reality. If you are perceived to be something, you might as well be it because that's the truth in people's minds.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real.

Normal is a myth.

You know that if ever the Fyrdraaca family is in true trouble, Barbizon is supposed to come to life and to our rescue, just as she did for Azucar.' 'Ayah, Poppy, I've heard the story.' 'Well, I often consider that I've sat here many times, and often felt in true trouble, and yet Barbizon has never leaped to my aid. So you know what that makes me think?' 'That it's just a story?' 'No, no. That my trouble is never true trouble. And things, though I think them bad, are not really so.

V?a nãy anh khóc là c? t??ng Nh?t L?c ?ã ch?t, bây gi? khóc là vì ?ã trông th?y Nh?t L?c v?n còn s?ng…

You don't have to pay tax on bullshit

Recordar el pasado o añorar la tierra natal son, en realidad, maneras de recurrir a algo tranquilizador cuando estamos desorientados en la vida real.

En realidad no vivimos en la Tierra, sino en el interior del tiempo.

There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.

It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Even when we're with someone we love, we're foolish enough to think of her body and soul as being separate. To stand before the person we love is not the same as loving her true self, for we are only apt to regard her physical beauty as the indispensable mode of her existence. When time and space intervene, it is possible to be deceived by both, but on the other hand, it is equally possible to draw twice as close to her real self.

In his heart, he always preferred the actuality of loss to the fear of it.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn't even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Glory, as anyone knows, is bitter stuff.

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the effort to join reality with the apparition.

Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination.