Quotes About Reality

You're not a realist, she says. You're a dreamer who doesn't believe in the dream.

I tried to resist the urge to reach for my camera. I tried to look, really look, as though this took an effort far greater than the movement of my eyes. You are here, I would say to myself, no part of this moment is melting into the future. You are only here and nowhere else. But I could never believe it. So I would take a photo to stop the world. So that I could keep moving

The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Nothing ever works like you predict it. All plans fall apart as soon as the first shot is fired.

Facts were to be faced, not fought.

Hopeless is hopeless, and don't ever pretend it ain't

fiction started up, and we started burning brain cells on stories about things that didn't happen to people who didn't exist. Why? The only answer can be that humans deeply, deeply desired it.

He liked fiction better than fact, because fact often wasn't. Like most people he knew a couple of things for sure, up close and eyeballed, and when he saw them in books they were wrong. So he liked made-up stories better, because everyone knew where they were from the get-go. He wasn't strict about genre. Either shit happened, or it didn't.

Realitatile sunt musafiri nepoftiti in lumea fanteziei.

But, you know, nobody lives forever. Conceptually these things don't come as a surprise.

The existing social order is a swindle and its cherished beliefs mostly delusions.

A dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

You can't be real-world smart and real-world dumb, all at the same time. You can't be rational and irrational. You can't deal with reality and simultaneously not deal with it.

But French people understand that first you live, and then you die. It's not an outrage. It's something that's been happening since the dawn of time. It

That's the problem with denial. Reality doesn't care what you think. It just keeps rolling along.

Deal with it," Reacher said. "It happened. It can't un-happen. Most folks aren't going to like it. Deep down humans haven't been modern very long. But some won't care. You'll find them." "Are you one of them?

Deal with it," Reacher said. "It happened. It can't un-happen. Most folks aren't going to like it. Deep down humans haven't been modern very long. But some won't care. You'll find them.

first you live, and then you die. It's not an outrage. It's something that's been happening since the dawn of time. It has to happen, don't you see? If people didn't die, the world would be an awfully crowded place by now.

dream from the past, unconnected with reality, but absolutely defining the identity of the person involved.

Los generales son mortales —dije—. Como todos.

On some deep level, we may choose to fill our days with busy work as a way to avoid the inevitable pain and disappointment in accepting that who we are may not be who we thought we were.

Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist. Of course it does, I said. It's what you feel when you're not sad. That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too.

Perception is reality, so it's up to us to create the perception

I'm writing a book on magic", I explain, and I'm asked, "Real magic?" By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. "No", I answer: "Conjuring tricks, not real magic". Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.