Quotes About Reality

That's not a good enough answer." "I know that better than anyone. But it is the answer regardless of whether or not you think it's good enough. That's what makes reality reality, the fact that it just keeps being true no matter how much you argue with it.

But in the moment, how can you turn away when Someday can suddenly be real?

It's really chaos and darkness out there, and when we prétend it's not, it's just The Play. We're all onstage. Saying our lines. Playing at whoever we're trying to be at the moment. A lawyer. A spouse. Even though we know in the back of our heads that life is a lot more random and messed-up than we can ud to say to ourselves.

With everything so perfect, reality seemed somehow fragile, as if the slightest interruption could imperil her pretty future... all of it felt as tenuous as a soap bubble, shivering and empty.

Reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

Out here, you find out that the city fools you about how things really work.

The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.

Dying is one of those things that can't be fixed. Not by talking about it, not with all the brain surge in the world.

All that glitters is not hovery.

that was what kept the world interesting...reality had no gears, and you never knew what surprises would come spinning out of its chaos.

Real life doesn't have many happy endings. Why shouldn't books make up the difference?

It's just the way things are. she shrugged. It's no one's fault. Or everyone's.

If you see everything through hovercams and feed stories, you wind up blind to what's right in front of you.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

And it was pretty clear that no prince was showing up, or at least that he was really late.

there was a beautiful princess with a prince kissing her lips only the prince was totally ugly

That the life of Man is but a dream has been sensed by many a one, and I too am never free of the feeling.

Can that be a delusion which makes us happy?

Even if Man's accustomed to take His small world for the Whole, that's his mistake:

Wilhelm, sind das Phantomen, wenn es uns wohl wird?

Recibimos con docilidad toda primera impresión, porque el hombre está hecho de tal modo, que llega a persuadirse de que son verdad las cosas más absurdas, pero desde luego se graban en él tan profundamente, que infeliz del que pretenda destruirlas o borrarlas.

All comes at last to feeling; Name is but sound and smoke, Beclouding Heaven's warm glow.

That the life of man is but a dream, many a man has surmised heretofore; and I, too, am everywhere pursued by this feeling.