Quotes About Reality

Deus existe mesmo quando não há. Mas o demônio não precisa de existir para haver – a gente sabendo que ele não existe, aí é que ele toma conta de tudo. O inferno é um sem-fim que nem não se pode ver.

E assim se passaram pelo menos seis ou seis anos e meio, direitinho deste jeito, sem tirar e nem pôr, sem mentira nenhuma, porque esta aqui é uma estória inventada, e não é um caso acontecido, não senhor.

Vossignoria, osservi bene, vossignoria: la verità istantanea di un fatto, la gente poi la racconta, e nessuno ci crede. Pensano che è un falso raccontare. Adesso, io, io so come è tutto: le cose che accadono, è perché già si trovavano pronte, in un'altra aria, nella radice dell'unghia: e di fatto tutto è gratis quando succede, nell'ordinario di un momento.

No real da vida, as coisas acabam com menos formato, nem acabam. Melhor assim. Pelejar por exato, dá erro contra a gente. Não se queira. Viver é muito perigoso...

Agora, nunca ter querido dar uma escapulidinha de vez em quando, nunca ter fantasiado uma trepada fora é mentira. Mentira que muito raramente pode ser sincera, mas, mesmo nestes casos, não deixa de ser mentira.

Pergunte a um cientista nuclear o que é a realidade e ele vai gaguejar, se for honesto. Mas existe uma realidade percebida, e o ser humano não pode tolerá-la e aí altera a percepção.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

I don't want you to leap into another relationship without thinking. Looking for perfect is a big, fat myth because perfect isn't out there.

Tú eres guapa A.J., y además inteligente. el problema es que siempre te enamoras de la imagen de un chico, sin preocuparte de cómo es realmente

La perfección es algo maravilloso, pero es una mentira, porque no existe.

Fear and negativity exist outside the now and naturally disappear when we realize that now is the only moment that really exists.

Real contemplation, in other words, is not for its own sake. It doesn't take us out of reality. On the contrary, it puts us in touch with the world around us by giving us the distance we need to see where we are more clearly. To contemplate the gospel and not respond to the wounded in our own world cannot be contemplation at all. That is prayer used as an excuse for not being Christian. That is spiritual dissipation.

Humility is reality to the full.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

The essence of life is not to find the one thing that satisfies us but to realize that nothing can ever completely satisfy us. And that's all right.

Things change all the time; but how much of it is real? Does any choice any of us ever makes, no matter how important it seems, really cause a ripple in the greater scheme of things?

The accuracy of my memories, whether things happened exactly the way that the personalities remember, doesn't really matter. If my memory, combined with the memories of the other personalities, provides some coherent past, then that is far better than the blankness I have. Whatever inaccuracies may occur because of the passage of time or because of the colored intensity of "emotional truth" harm no one. All that matters is that I gain a firm grasp on what is real. (165)

Now that she had the diagnosis to explain her sense of reality, she sorted some of the chaotic jumble of thoughts and memories. "I'd feel funny having 'daydreamed' my way through whole seasons," Jo said, "but then I'd hear someone say, 'Time flies,' or 'How did it get to be three o'clock already?' and I'd think that everyone was like me.

Jo knew she had to be utterly truthful, even when her version of the truth conflicted with what Lynn wanted to hear. Truth was vital to Jo, because she had a hard enough time keeping track of the spotty reality she experienced.

When the Jo personality first told him of the diagnosis, he called MPD "clinical bullshit." Then, seeing Jo's stricken look, he softened and showed her how the possibility of many personalities in a single body was philosophically untenable. MPD did not fit into Steve's system of beliefs, and therefore it did not exist.

Life-threatening illness calls us to a place—metaphorically a desert or mountain peak—where, as we sit, the hard wind of reality strips away all the trappings of life, like so much clothing, makeup, and accessories.

Iris Murdoch defined humility as a "selfless respect for reality.

The psychological tragedy is that when one turns to others for constant recognition, validation, and approval, one cannot hold onto one's own experiences as measurements of success emanating from external reality

Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain how imagination can transform not only events and people, but the artist as well, into quite different "realities".