Quotes About Reality

It is like being two foreigners, trapped in a land we have come to, unable to return to our own, and having only each other to confirm the reality of the place we once lived.

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

We were speaking of people living their dreams, and I said that few do, and even fewer enjoy the experience. For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.

I wasn't being fair to expect those things of him. But life wasn't fair. Life does not wait for any of us to grow up.

I tried to unbelieve that it had happened, to force time back by sheer effort of will.

Everything she sang was true. I will leave it to you as to whether the truth can exist with details omitted, or if those lacks make a lie of it.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

Die in your dreams, wake up insane.

Think of what is and don't let what might have been distract you.

When she spoke his name, Beloved, he believed she meant it. He spoke of an adolescence I envied. Pampered, praised, educated . . . any child's dream. But we all awake from dreams.

Then as now he created reality around himself, bringing order and peace to a small island of warm firelight and the simple smell of hearth bread cooking.

Reality is often unkind to legends.

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

For too many, when they get their dream, they discover it is not what they wanted. Or the dream is bigger than their abilities, and all ends in bitterness.

I hate irony. It is a manacle that ties our dreams to our fears.

Mornings come, whether we want them or not.

Sometimes it seems worrying is something I feel like I have to do, that maybe worrying about them actually keeps them alive and real

The truth doesn't need you to recognize it, young man, for it to be so. You need the truth to recognize you.

Damn it, a man has to see himself reflected somewhere to be sure he is real

Once a person had realized death, if they could turn aside from pain they immediately turned toward wonder and Sa. It took both steps, Wintrow knew that. If a person had not accepted death as a reality, the touch could be refused. Some accepted death and the touch, but could not let go of their pain. They clung to it as a final vestige of life.

And my father is dead. She did not speak the words aloud, but the reality of them cut her again, deeper and sharper. It seemed to her that each time she thought she had grasped the fact of his death, a few moments later it struck her again even harder.

Once, she would have found him mysterious and alluring. She had grown wiser. Dangerous men were neither romantic nor exotic; they were men who could hurt you.

Why must love cost anything? Why does need have to be mixed up with love? Why can't people be like butterflies, coming together in bright sunshine and parting while the day is still bright?' 'Because they are people, not butterflies. To pretend that people can come together, love, and then part with no pain or consequences is more false a role than pretending to be a proper Trader's daughter.

Silly me. To think there was such a thing as a safe place in the world.