Quotes About Reality

It's a curse—this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I did not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy... In other words, Scarlett, I am a coward.

Why be an ostrich?

Well, none of us, as far as I can see, are doing what we intended to do right now, but I think we'll make out just the same. It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be.

Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.

desear y conseguir eran dos cosas distintas. La vida no le había enseñado que correr no siempre significa alcanzar.

Why, my goodness, honey. After looking at all those pictures of seraphic and perspirationless babes for so long in the privacy of a foxhole, what is a poor doughfoot going to do when he comes home and discovers that American women are, after all, biological and given, under stress, to shiny noses?

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality.

This can't be real. It can't be. It's a nightmare. I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare. I mustn't think of it now, or I'll begin screaming in front of all these people. I can't think of it now. I'll think later, when I can stand it - when I can't see his eyes.

Ho paura di morire e di andare all'inferno. - Se egli avesse riso, sarebbe morta. Ma Rhett non rise. - Siete in ottima salute, mi pare.. e forse l'inferno non c'è. - - C'è Rhett! Sapete benissimo che c'è!- - So che c'è; ma è qui, sulla terra. Non dopo che saremo morti. Dopo la morte non vi è nulla, Rossella. Il vostro inferno lo provate adesso. -

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.

I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

For Ashley was born of a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not for doing, for spinning brightly colored dreams that had in them no touch of reality. He moved in an inner world that was more beautiful than Georgia and came back to reality with reluctance!

You are pretty healthy, and maybe there isn't any hell after all. Oh, but there is Rhett! You know there is! I know there is but it's right here on earth. Not after we die. There's nothing after we die, Scarlett. You are having your hell now.

He never really existed at all, except in my imagination," she thought wearily. "I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

Life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I did not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy…

You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what's really happening is more important than trying to control people.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God.

A theory must be tempered with reality.