Quotes About Reality

If a storyteller worried about the facts - my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth?

What you may seek and what you may find are not always one.

righteousness [is] always more believable when combined with dreariness.

Is a man truly what he see himself to be?' 'Only if what he sees is true.

There is an exuberance in good fantasy quite unlike the most exalted moments of realistic fiction. Both forms have similar goals; but realism walks where fantasy dances.

Yet long afterward, when all had passed away into distant memory, there were many who wondered whether King Taran, Queen Eilonwy, and their companions had indeed walked the earth, or whether they had been no more than dreams in a tale set down to beguile children. And, in time, only the bards knew the truth of it.

In this secular view of the universe, God, along with his heavenly dwelling-place, has lost objective reality. There is no need to postulate a supernatural

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. And they lived happily ever after

Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

you can pretend that bad things will never happen. But life's a lot easier if you realize and admit that sometimes they do.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had—well, this was the part that he couldn't adequately understand—the apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic.

It was only in the fairy tales that people were called upon to be so brave, to die for one another. Not in real-life Denmark.

They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

If power was an illusion, wasn't weakness necessarily one also?

So you're saying that I could die at any moment!" "Yes. And this is different from your life yesterday in what way?

Never underestimate the human capacity for wishful thinking and willful blindness,' said Miles. Such as a whole society of people who became so wrapped up in avoiding death, they forgot to be alive?

So what's the test? Ah, that's the trick of it. It's not a test. It's real life.

No, amusing me only, I wonder if they realize how they are used? Not a bit. They think they are the emperors of creation. Poor lambs. That's not how I'd describe them. I was thinking of animal sacrifice. Ah. That's closer.

He didn't think he was edging into dementia. He suspected he was edging into sanity, the long way around. The hard way.

If anyone was sane here, he swore it was by accident.

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth?