Reality Quotes - Page 35

I wished the dream were real, and this reality a dream. But that wasn't the case. And that was why, whenever I woke up, I'd be crying. It wasn't because I was sad. When you return from a happy dream to sad reality, there's a chasm you have to step across, and you can't cross it without shedding tears. It doesn't matter how many times you do it.

Kyōichi Katayama

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Terry Pratchett

People reject what they do not understand because it makes them feel small. They would rather believe in some other reality, even if it is only an illusion, so long as it makes them feel bigger.

Suzy Kassem

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

Susanna Kaysen

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)

Thomas Merton

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Tonya Hurley

Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.

André Breton

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.

Wilkie Collins

Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

Brad Pitt

I have a subconscious list of rules for how reality should work. I did not develop these rules on purpose, and most of them don’t make sense – which is disturbing when you consider that they are an attempt to govern the behavior of reality – but they exist, and they play a large role in determining how I react to the things that happen to me. Large enough that a majority of the feelings I feel are simply a reaction to reality not complying with my arbitrary set of rules. Reality doesn’t give a shit about my rules, and this upsets me.

Allie Brosh

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it...fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away on a shelf - your book, your romanced autobiography. We are all in the flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo sapiens.

John Fowles

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Alan Moore

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her. He steals softly over the grass, careful to make no sound; he pauses -- fancying she has stirred: he withdraws: not for worlds would he be seen. All is still: he again advances: he bends above her; a light veil rests on her features: he lifts it, bends lower; now his eyes anticipate the vision of beauty -- warm, and blooming, and lovely, in rest. How hurried was their first glance! But how they fix! How he starts! How he suddenly and vehemently clasps in both arms the form he dared not, a moment since, touch with his finger! How he calls aloud a name, and drops his burden, and gazes on it wildly! He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter -- by any movement he can make. He thought his love slept sweetly: he finds she is stone dead.I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.

Charlotte Brontë

Normal is an ideal. But it’s not reality. Reality is brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s every shade between black and white, and it’s magical. Yes, magical. Because every now and then, it turns nothing into something.

Tara Kelly

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Wallace Stevens

...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.

Rabih Alameddine

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

Marcus Aurelius

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.

George Orwell

Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.

Marty Rubin

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Alan Moore

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

Cormac McCarthy

The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I didn’t meet a soul. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land. The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. As if I had drowned long ago. As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.

Eugene O'Neill

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Michel Houellebecq

Illusion is Reality's coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, weet oblivion to his knowledge. A bounty to his lack. [Sabine]

Kresley Cole

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Jeanette Winterson

Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question.

Lao Tzu

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it if you refuse to face the possibility.

William S Burroughs

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Criss Jami

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Charles Baxter

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

Margery Williams Bianco

Your expectation of something unique and dramatic, of some wonderful explosion, is merely hindering and delaying your Self Realization. You are not to expect an explosion, for the explosion has already happened - at the moment when you were born, when you realized yourself as Being-Knowing-Feeling. There is only one mistake you are making: you take the inner for the outer and the outer for the inner. What is in you, you take to be outside you and what is outside, you take to be in you. The mind and feelings are external, but you take them to be intimate. You believe the world to be objective, while it is entirely a projection of your psyche. That is the basic confusion and no new explosion will set it right! You have to think yourself out of it. There is no other way.

Nisargadatta Maharaj

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

Maya Angelou

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

Frida Kahlo

Reality's what other people dream for you.

Maggie Stiefvater

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Neil Gaiman

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

Aldous Huxley

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Virginia Woolf

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

Francesca Zappia

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Leonard Cohen

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

Adam Young

It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

Haruki Murakami

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

Anthony Burgess

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.

Scott Westerfeld

We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.

Ellen Hopkins

Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow dawning pain that comes with sanity - the realization of illnesss, the humiliating scenes, the blown money and friendships and confidence. Depression seems almost inevitable. The pendulum swings back from transcendence in shards, a bloody, dangerous mess. Crazy high is better than crazy low. So we gamble, dump the pills, and stick it to the control freaks and doctors. They don't understand, we say. They just don't get it. They'll never be artists.

David Lovelace

Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.

Kasie West

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

André Breton

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Philip K Dick

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

Hunter S. Thompson

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

Victor Hugo

Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.

Young-Ha Kim

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

Neil Gaiman

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T.S Eliot

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

C.S. Lewis

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.

John Lennon

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