Quotes About Reality

Eternity, Presumption The instant I perceive That you who were Existence Yourself forgot to live

Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun.

Consciousness is the only home of which we know.

I took one Draught of Life— I'll tell you what I paid— Precisely an existence— The market price, they said.

Hay algo que me gusta en la agonía, y es que sé que es verdad; los hombres no simulan convulsiones, no imitan el dolor. Unos ojos se vidrian, y es la muerte. Imposible de fingir las gotas de sudor sobre la frente que la inhábil angustia va ensartando.

To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim —

Opinion is a flitting thing. But truth outlasts the sun.

I like a look of agony, Because I know it 's true;

Who never wanted, ? maddest joy Remains to him unknown ; The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope, though yet ungrasped Desire's perfect goal, No nearer, lest reality Should disenthrall thy soul.

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.

But I have learned that you can't just create your own timetable and will it to come true.

No, scratch the word career. Careers are for people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck.

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

so much of how we see the world is a matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and wanting and hoping rather than really deep-down believing.

I know that the problem isn't the dream per se. It was the way I felt afterward, once awake.

Because sometimes I have the feeling that everyone thinks that everyone else is living a fairy tale. Especially in the South. People fake things so much. Put on a happy face and show off your perfect life.

Don't go giving this encounter any crazy meaning like you did with him the first time around. It doesn't mean a thing. Not a thing. Sometimes, in life, there is no meaning at all.

But at the time, I honestly didn't think I was hurting anyone, not even myself. I didn't think much at all, in fact. Yes, I was gorgeous and lucky in love, but I truly believed that I was also a decent person who deserved her good fortune.

That nothing can be real when marred with so many lies.

On a subconscious level, I subscribe to the notion that if you worry about something, it is somehow less likely to happen. Well, I am here to say that it doesn't work like that. The very thing you fear the most can still happen anyway. And when it does, you feel that much more cheated for having feared it in the first place.

You were only in love with the idea of love. And now you are in love with the idea of a broken heart…

Things are what they are and there's no point dwelling in the past or wondering what could have been.

I also appreciate Amy's forty-something perspective that the thirties are a grind for many, and motherhood isn't the constantly blissful journey everyone thinks it will be when they attend their pink or blue or yellow baby shower.