Quotes About Reality

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

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

All happy endings are ultimately an illusion created by stopping short.

We cannot protect anyone from being alive, Master Bosha. No matter how much we might wish to.

Miles watched the evening shadows flowing up along the backbone of the Dendarii range, high and massive in the distance. How small those mountains looked from space! Little wrinkles on the skin of a globe he could cover with his hand, all their crushing mass made invisible. Which was illusory, distance or nearness? Distance, Miles decided. Distance was a damned lie. Had his father known this? Miles suspected so.

I figure we can tell events exactly as they happened, just leave out that one tiny detail." "You figure, do you? You must be using a different kind of math than the rest of the universe does.

Idrene said gently, "We cannot protect anyone from being alive, Master Bosha. No matter how much we might wish to." Her eyes fell on her own children.

Though the Ista they thought they loved, she supposed, was an imaginary one, a woman who existed only in their own minds, part icon, part habit. The reflection did not depress her unduly, now that she knew someone who loved the Ista who was real. She fell asleep thinking of him.

I'm not so in love with facts as I used to be. Sometimes, they bite.

How could I have died and gone to hell without noticing the transition?

I've decided it's important to love the life you get and somehow learn to let go of the life you dreamed of.

The real you doesn't eat, or drink, or think, or sleep, or die.

Once we remove the cultural framework around the words religion and magic, no objective differences remain.

wish space allowed me to discuss The Vision and The Voice in detail, but that has been done admirably in The Vision and The Voice with Commentary and Other Papers61 It provides an in-depth study of these wondrous visions and brings the spiritual reality of many tarot images to life.

Remember, these are levels of consciousness, and not places or heavens located somewhere out in space.

It may be true that every enlightened sage is insane, but it does not necessarily follow that every insane person is an enlightened sage!

Do you love me, Alex?" Janey already knew the answer. She knew, but it still tore a hole in her heart to see the answer in his face. "Don't believe in fairy tales, sweetheart." He sighed, touching her cheek with his fingertips. "Sometimes I forget how young you are." How young she was? As though age had anything to do with love. Since when?

The lonely fancy that had not fact to feed on, nor the fancy of any other for fellowship, was for its loneliness mad.

All that is is so because it was to be. Rail not, therefore, against what is, for it was all to be.

Ilka's triangle of pizza behaved like Dali's watch and kept folding away from her mouth.

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests or hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been men. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality, for reality is an illusion of the daylight — the light of our particular day.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Life is sad. Here is someone.

No matter that you anticipate a thing; you get so used to it as part of the future that its actuality, its arrival, its force and presence, startles you, takes you by surprise, as would a ghost suddenly appearing in the room wearing familiar perfume and boots.