Quotes About Reality

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm.

Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow everything your high-born teachers tell you without takinga long hard look at it yourselves.

My dad was also a teacher until he was 34. I think there is a basis in reality. But I'd only done two jobs before I was an actor. I worked in a petrol station and I worked in a supermarket.

But there is another reason why, from the writer's point of view, it would serve no purpose to approach them in that way: because to treat them as magical or surreal would be to rob them of precisely the quality that makes them so urgently compelling—which is that they are actually happening on this earth, at this time.

At the same time, it has also reinforced the mind-body dualism to the point of producing the illusion, so powerfully propagated in cyberspace, that human beings have freed themselves from their material circumstances to the point where they have become floating personalities "decoupled from a body.

That happens you know, as you grow older – you can't tell the dreams from the memories.

not one of them had ever imagined, or could believe, that it might be possible to look at the world through the eye of a storm.

Closing your eyes to the cruelty of life is, in my opinion, both stupid and sinful. There's very little we can do about it. So we have to at least acknowledge it.

Feiten zijn volgens mij vaak de ergste vijanden van de waarheid.

Begreppet 'lycklig i alla sina dagar', illusionen om bestående lycka, är i själva verket en oxymoron. Antingen konstant lycka eller klimax. Evig lycka är inte någon lycka, på samma sätt som evig orgasm inte alls är någon orgasm.

Non capisci, Nimi sogna solo per poter raccontare. E poi, i suoi sogni, non smettono nemmeno dopo che si è svegliato, la mattina.

Cuando crezcas te darás cuenta de que casi todo lo que se oye por la noche puede interpretarse de diversas formas. Y de hecho, no sólo por la noche y no sólo lo que se oye: también lo que se ve, e incluso lo que se ve a plena luz del día, puede casi siempre entenderse de muchas formas.

But why write about things that exist even without you? Why describe in words things that are not words?

Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

You are here," she said. "Live here, not in the past in a country that you can't go back to.

They do not want the truth. They want to hear details that will confirm their misconceptions, that will validate their fears.

Words are like charms, she realizes. If said often enough, they will make it so