Quotes About Reality

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

O não-saber é o fundamento de tudo, ele cria o todo através de um acto que repete a cada instante, produz este mundo e qualquer outro, uma vez que está sempre a tomar como real aquilo que o não é. O não-saber é o gigantesco equívoco que serve de base a todas as nossas verdades, o não-saber é mais antigo e mais poderoso do que todos os deuses juntos.

Le réel me donne de l'asthme.

I taught him, 'he quavered, "to trust in love. I said:'when love comes, that is reality.' I said: 'Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Bad dreams? -Just dreams.

Pathos, piety, courage, —they exist, but are identical, and so is filth. Everything exists, nothing has value.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

To live by worry is to live against reality

It's only a paper moon,Sailing over a cardboard sea,But it wouldn't be make-believeIf you believed in me.

I'd always wanted to believe that my ancestors were better people than they probably were. - Princess Emma

There is no reality without interpretation; just as there is no innocent eye, there is no innocent ear.

Porque es una máxima constante que nadie ve lo que son las cosas si no sabe lo que deberían ser.

We all know the experience at the moving pictures when we are ushered to a seat very far off-center. At first the screen and what is on it look so distorted and unreal we feel like leaving. But in a few minutes we have learned to take our position into account, and the proportions right themselves. And as with shapes, so with colors.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

Love felt and returned, love which our bodies exact and our hearts have transfigured, love which is the most real thing that we shall ever meet, reappeared now as the world's enemy, and she must stifle it.

for literature had always been a solace for him, something that the ugliness of facts could not spoil.

If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious.

Life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish tother from which.

For that little incident had impressed the three women more than might be supposed. It remained as a goblin footfall, as a hint that all is not for the best in the best of all possible worlds, and that beneath these superstructures of wealth and art there wanders an ill-fed boy, who has recovered his umbrella indeed, but who has left no address behind him, and no name.

They too entered the world of dreams- that world in which a third of each man's life is spent, and which is thought by some pessimists to be a premonition of eternity.