Quotes About Reality

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.

Was ich besitze, seh ich wie im Weiten, Und was verschwand, wird mir zu Wirklichkeiten.

What I possess, I see far distant lying, And what I lost, grows real and undying.

No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them.

Did I not feel charmed at those truly genuine expressions of nature, which, though but little mirthful in reality, so often amused us?

Investigate what is, and not what pleases.

Bu durumda olan yaln?zca ben de?ilim. Bütün insanlar umutlar?nda kand?r?l?yor, beklentilerinde aldat?l?yorlar.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

I have a normal life and I have this glamorous life, but to me it's two different things.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!

With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.