Quotes About Reality

You and me will died the way we lived; telling ourselves stories to make it mean something.

It must be nice, being perfect, but some of us have to live in this world.

Ik vind het vervelend dat ik het je moet vertellen, maar je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik wil je geen pijn doen door dit te zeggen. Ik zeg het omdat ik het wel zo eerlijk vind om open kaart te spelen voor we beginnen. Ik hoop dat je dat waardeert, want vanaf nu zal niemand meer open of eerlijk tegen je zijn. Dus nogmaals, ik zeg het je vooraf maar: je zult nooit gelukkig worden. Ik heb het voor je opgeschreven. Heel graag gedaan.

The reality, as I now see it, is that death happens, and that death often happens in ways that seem horrific. Refusing to eat meat does not stop that.

Belief is merely a thought or idea that is held to be true. No thought or idea is true. This is the flaw. In fact, in direct experience, no thought or idea can be found.

Belief cannot give you what already is. Belief can merely obscure that clarity of ever-present reality, which is non-conceptual.

Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.

Ideas will never give you what you want. You want the simplicity of being. The peace that surpasses understanding. The reality of what is.   What you seek is unavoidable. What you seek is what is. Already. This.

She shook her head. "You're insane." "We're human, Cass. That's all. We're all kids playing grown-up. We do the best we can." [Lucas to Cassandra]

Want mooie herinneringen zijn zuivere zielen, en de realiteit daarnaast een sterfelijk lichaam.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

A népnyelv e kifinomult szellem számára mindent túl közvetlenné, túl személyessé, túl reálissá tett volna. Szüksége volt arra a homályos, távolságtartó, könny? fátyolra, amelyet a latin nyelv vont a dolgok köré.

We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are.

You simulate being another human so well that fiction is a far better virtual reality simulator than the machines currently marketed under that name.

The writer James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

We have fundamental limitations," Adam added. "We could ignore them, and pretend we're capable of everything we would wish—or we can acknowledge them, and live our lives in a better way.

A common symptom of depression is something called "derealization"5—which is where you feel like nothing you are doing is authentic or real.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

How can I not be? How can you not be? We are after all. –– Not be! What does that mean? It is only a word, a mere sound, which stirs nothing in me.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Here too it's masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I'd gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.