Quotes About Reality

Life in San Francisco is still just life. If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and

The first difference Newt noticed about being grown up was that time didn't pass as slow.

Her own folly amused her: she had once thought of herself as smart—but look at where she was.

Basically Jake just dreamed his way through life and somehow got by with it.

I could hear them whispering how Granddad had gone to a better place. They could think so and go to hell; I didn't believe it. Not unless dirt is a better place than air.

He was still the captain, but no one had seemed to notice that there was no troop and no war.

The truth was, most plans did fail, to one degree or another, for one reason or another. He had survived as a Ranger because he was quick to respond to what he had actually found, not because his planning was infallible. In

I could hear [the old ladies from Thalia] whispering how Granddad had gone to a better place. They could think and go to hell; I didn't believe it. Not unless dirt is a better place than air.

I live the perfect imperfect life. -Paul Lore

Vad är det som kommer oss att hela tiden försöka intala oss att de döda föremålen omkring oss har en själ, att ladda dem med betydelser? Kan det vara någonting annat än misstanken att också vi är döda föremål?

Separar os vivos dos mortos. Separar a fantasia da realidade é coisa que não me interessa muito. Além disso, meus sonhos são fruto desse tempo. Mas o vivo e o morto!

and it occured to me then and forever afterwards, that films, theatre books and poems were just a fraud. It's only music that doesn't deceive, it doesn't pretend to be anything else except what it is. Music.

When everything gets messy and brutal and complicated, the truth is the first thing to go, isn't it?

You may have to go with English," Bailey says. "Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else.

My grandfather used to say that most people don't want to hear the thing that will make it work better," I said. "They want to hear what will make it easier.

You think if you don't talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

Einstein said, So far as the theories of mathematics are about reality, they are not certain; so far as they are certain, they are not about reality." Bailey tilts her head. "Still waiting on the English there, Professor," she says. "It basically means, we don't know shit about anything," he says.

The part where you need to choose among the choices that are there, and not the ones that aren't anymore. At least not how you need them to be. You're still stuck on some imaginary idea you have of how it could have been. You need to think about how it is now. And how you want it to be.

we don't know shit about anything

The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.

Growing up is never idyllic, is it? Or it'd be called something else - Jacob

The simple truth is that the truth does not exist, it all depends on a persons point of view.

Generalmente, ésa es la manera en que se escribe la historia, a través de las versiones de los testigos presenciales, que no siempre corresponden a la realidad.