Quotes About Reality

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

...Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality, they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth.

What is love if not a trick of the light?

He still had on last night's trousers. Not a good sign. However, she had not killed him in his sleep—and that was a good sign. She was probably saving his execution for later, when he could feel it. He stood up straight in front of the mirror. He stuck out his hairy chest. He flexed, popping out tattooed biceps. I am a marine, he said to himself. She is five foot three. He sagged visibly. Who am I kidding? was his next thought. He

Nothing is ever what it seems, he

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. —Henry David Thoreau

Anyway, I grew up with a mom who regularly manipulated reality to best suit her needs. I

The Cinderella story just never came true.

When I read a book it feels like real life and when I put the book down it's like I go back into the dream.

Stories," she says, "are the only thing in this world that are real. Everything else is just a dream.

If people really grew up, there would be no crime, no divorce, no Civil War reenactors....it's not like you think it will be, that one day you'll wake up and realize that you've got things figured out. You never figure it out. Ever. - Isabel Spellman attempting to explain growing up to her sister Rae

So here I am, alone." "You're not alone." "When you're facing death, you're alone." I grab Jenna by the shoulders. "Here's a news flash for you. We all face death. We all walk alone. The only difference is most of us don't know how close we are to it until it's too late.

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

I don't even like horror movies. The world has enough real monsters without creating fictional monsters.

Normal was the simple wish of everyone with a mental illness. Normal was what everyone else, the worried well, took for granted.

did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell. —HARRY S TRUMAN

Not true, I got macular degeneration." Mrs. Teichner winked. "Or maybe I'm just a degenerate!

When in the world did anyone die from a dream?

Dreamers are born to be disappointed.

What the body knows and what the mind chooses to believe are two different things, after all.

I imagined my first night alone in bed with my stranger. I conjured our future years together unhampered by worries about money or officialdom. We would enjoy the day, the night, a smile, a word, a kiss, a glance. All lovely thoughts. All pointless dreams.

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds than to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.

It's a Sun and Moon truth that if a husband sees his wife give birth, he might die from it.

I had always thought it was her way of blinding herself to the messiness of the way we lived. Now I realised it was easier for her mind to go out through the air far above the clouds then to acknowledge the ugliness right before her eyes.