Quotes About Reality

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

Wir sehen die Dinge nicht, wie sie sind, wir sehen sie so, wie wir sind.

If the "signs and wonders" are lightly dismissed, it is not because they are unreal, but because it is an evil and adulterous generation that asketh for a sign.

Here, you grow up believing there's a safety net, that things can never completely fall apart. Katrina showed us all that's not true.

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.

Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.

Viver no presente, como diziam os estóicos, como dizem todos os sábios, não é um sonho, não é um ideal, não é uma utopia: é a simplíssima e dificílima verdade de viver. A eternidade? Se ela é ''um perpétuo hoje'', como queria Santo Agostinho, é inútil esperá-la amanhã.

Action is a part of the very reality it transforms, just as the wave is a part of the ocean. The point is not to renounce action, but to act with serenity. Our action will be all the more effective, and all the happier.

L'apparence est le tout du réel et du vrai – ce pourquoi il n'y a ni Réalité absolue, ni Vérité éternelle, ni Totalité sensée ou structurée. Pyrrhon

Je suis un être de dialogue ; tout en moi combat et se contredit. Les Mémoires ne sont jamais qu'à demi sincères, si grand que soit le souci de vérité : tout est toujours plus compliqué qu'on ne le dit. Peut-être même approche-t-on de plus près la vérité dans le roman.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.

El color de la verdad es gris.

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed.

The deeper the soul plunges into religious religious devotion, the more it loses all sense of reality, all need, all desire, all love for reality.

Il faut se rendre à l'évidence; Car, dans ce bas monde, la danse Précède souvent la chanson.

Trop souvent la vérité sur la Russie est dite avec haine et le mensonge avec amour.

The deeper the soul plunges into religious devotion, the more it loses all sense of reality, all need, all desire, all love for reality.

It is not that I lack attention or interest....but even though I am extremely sensitive to the outside world, I can never fully believe in its reality...The real world always remains somewhat fantastic for me...I have no feeling of its reality.

One wants to deceive people, and one is so much occupied with seeming, that one ends by not knowing what one really is.…

Le rêve de demain est une joie, mais la joie de demain en est une autre, et rien heureusement ne ressemble au rêve qu'on s'en était fait; car c'est différemment que vaut chaque chose.