Quotes About Reality

Man cannot change or escape his time. The eye sees the present and the future

Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.

There is no river at all, and no boat, and no boatman. There is not even a rope to tow the boat, and no one to pull it. There is no earth, no sky, no time, no thing, no shore, no ford!

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

When you're born, you're pure. Unspoiled and trusting. Some say, it's the only time we're perfect. You're also born covered in blood and placenta. No one gets nostalgic about that.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

Time exists in order that everything doesn't happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.

Human consensus does not generate reality. Were it able to do so, the Sun would have taken to orbiting the Earth some time ago.

Time does not really exist as we know it; rather it's a transfiguration of a concept in which mortality, mutability, is conditioned.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

Everything in modern civilization is based on this concept of time which is not really valid.

Il n'est rien de réel que le rêve et l'amour.

After all, things are what they are. A message is a message, plates are plates, men are men, and life is life.

I had feared to be presumptuous; of building up a fairyland out of dreams; of yielding to my imagination rather than to my good sense. And yet, deep down in some inner consciousness, a faint insidious hope had whispered to itself that if I showed myself worthy, perhaps-perhaps- And now perhaps had become reality, and all doubt and mistrust a vanished dream.