Quotes About Reality

The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats — we know it not.

All active mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world.

the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!

honesty is like seeing a crackhead up close: it ain't that fucking attractive.

She returned to consciousness only to find herself in an unescapable nightmare.

We do not have direct access to the physical world. It may feel as if we have direct access, but this is an illusion created by our brain" (Frith 2007).

Our perception of the world is a fantasy that coincides with reality. (Frith 2007)

It wasn't her fault, but it was her fate, like so many single mothers, to be caught between a wistful child and his fantasies of the father who is perfect, in part because he is hardly ever there.

One of the main lessons of Zen is that we ordinarily see the world through a haze of preconceptions and fixed ideas that proceed from our desires. To achieve enlightenment, we must follow the Zen teaching not merely to let go of desire and attachment, but to experience reality exactly as it is—without the preconceptions and the fixed ideas getting in the way. This

Nothing quite has reality for me till I write it all down--revising and embellishing as I go. I'm always waiting for things to be over so I can get home and commit them to paper.

But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.

La verdad es que las fantasías, fantasías son y una no puede vivir extasiada todos los días del año. Incluso si das un portazo y te largas, incluso si jodes con todo el mundo a la vista, no te acercas más a la libertad necesariamente.

What we remember lacks the hard edge of fact. To help us along we create little fictions, highly subtle and individual scenarios which clarify and shape our experience. The remembered event becomes a fiction, a structure made to accommodate certain feelings. This is obvious to me. If it weren't for these structures, art would be too personal for the artist to create, much less for the audience to grasp. Even film, the most literal of all the arts, is edited. —Jerzy Kosinski

Fame turns out to be a powerful instrument of grace because it humbles its chosen victims in a hurry. You sail into it, your canvas swelled with grandiosity, and when your fifteen minutes are over and you are becalmed, you realize that grandiosity cannot take you where you need to go. Only then do you learn to row like hell, asking God for the strength to stay afloat.

Quel homme possède jamais une femme ? Quel homme possède jamais la vérité ?

La quantité ne fait pas la vérité.

Tanti Roz, mi se pare c? au inventat un alt spital decât cel real. Se prefac c? oamenii vin la spital decât ca s? se vindece. DeÈ™i unii vin ca s? moar?. -Ai dreptate,Oscar. ?i cred c? facem aceeaÈ™i greÈ™eal? È™i în privinÈ›a vieÈ›ii. Uit?m c? viaÈ›a e fragil?, f?râmicioas?, efemer?. Ne credem toÈ›i nemuritori.

Poate c? tânjesc dup? un miracol… Care anume? S? încetez s? m? v?d acÈ›ionând. S? nu mai fiu actriÅ£a, nici spectatoarea propriei persoane. S? încetez s? m? mai judec, s? m? critic, s?-mi percep impostura. ?i, în cele din urm?, precum un cub de zahar în ap?, s? m? cufund în realitate si s? m? dizolv în ea.

acele buchete de flori care pornesc în c?utarea unei inimi ÅŸi nu g?sesc decât o vaz?.

Je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile,friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

A po co mia?bym pisa? do Pana Boga? - Mo?e poczu?by? si? mniej samotny? - Mniej samotny z kim?, kto nie istnieje? - Spraw, ?eby istnia?. Pochyli?a si? w moj? stron?. - Za ka?dym razem, kiedy w niego uwierzysz, b?dzie troch? bardziej istnia?. Je?li si? uprzesz, zacznie istnie? na dobre. I wtedy ci pomo?e.

Oscar, la malattia è come la morte. E' un fatto. Non è una punizione.

Le veritable voyage consiste toujours en la confrontation d'un imaginaire a une realite: il se situe entre ces deux mondes. Une secrete melancolie s'attache aux etres que l'on quitte apres les avoir beaucoup aimes.