Quotes About Reality

Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.

At this moment [of lust] God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God" (Dietrich Bonhoeffer).

In reality, we are all equally disadvantaged. None of us naturally seeks after God, none is inherently righteous, none instinctively does good (cf. Romans 3:9-18). Therefore, as children of grace, our spiritual discipline is everything — everything! I repeat . . . discipline is everything!

Don't turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies. RJ Intindola

Cameras can only record what they see.

je découvrais que les adultes n'était pas conformes à ce qu'ils disaient être. Qu'ils agissaient par rapport à la société, non par conviction profonde. C'est ce que, toute ma vie, je reprocherai aux un et aux autres: agir sans croyance.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone.

Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass—an hourglass that drains grain by grain.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

Reality never meets our wants, and adjusting both is why we tell stories.

The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.

It's just that our memories are rarely where we think they are.

Transmuting this sandy metaphor, if literature is my sandbox, then the real world is my hourglass—an hourglass that drains grain by grain. Literature gives me life, and life kills me. Well, life kills everyone.

When things turn out as you expect more often than not, do you feel more in control of your destiny? Do you take more responsibility for your life? If that's the case, why do Americans always behave as if they're victims? Hear

Other people are hazy phenomena that become corporeal only in my memories.

Uncle Jihad used to say that what happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of those events affect us. My father and I may have shared numerous experiences, but, as I was constantly finding out, we rarely shared their stories; we din't know how to listen to one another.

Memory, memoir, autobiography - lies, lies, all lies.

I wondered at times whether I would wake up and this would be just a bad dream, a nightmare that I could wish away, I had the same fantasy when you were sick, Doc, that I would one day wake up and you all would be healthy and alive.

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

What seems to be coming at you is really coming from you

Facts are many, but the truth is one.