Reality Quotes
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable."
"I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?"
"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."
"Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real."
"One person's craziness is another person's reality."
"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."
"Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures."
"nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"
"Nothing is real."
"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system."
"My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism."
"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."
"I had a dream about you. I said green was blue and yellow, and you said green was yellow and blue. You were like that with everything I said, taking the exact opposite stance, yet completely agreeing with me. That’s how I knew you loved me."
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent."
"I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted."
"As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist."
"My reality is it’s nighttime. The truth is I’m just blindfolded. How many people live like me, in self-deluded darkness?"
"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."
"He’s right-handed, so I told him to draw his self-portrait with his left hand, because it’d look so ugly it’d look realistic. Since he’s a DC politician, I figured a little reality was needed in his life."
"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."
"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."
"Please, touch me, I pray."
"The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Parmenides taught that the only things that are real are things which never change... and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus taught that everything changes. If you superimpose their two views, you get this result: Nothing is real."
"Her love was too cold, like an anti-oven. That's called a freezer, and sometimes it burns food. She gave me heartburn, just like coffee, and it really woke me up to the reality of relationships."
"The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff."
"Antonin Artaud wrote on one of his drawings, "Never real and always true,"and that is how depression feels. You know that it is not real, that you are someone else, and yet you know that it is absolutely true."
"Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion."
"The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it."
"But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day."
"You can't just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality."
"We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN."
"Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering."
"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."
"There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true."
"When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake."
"Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts."
"Everyone is different from each other, but that doesn’t mean everyone should be indifferent to each other."
"In today's classroom everybody wins a trophy, even the one kid who actually won. Soon it will be, let's punish that kid for making the other kids feel like losers."
"How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference."
"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."
"What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe."
"I curse in cursive. It's hard to read and harder take. But if you take it black, like coffee, then at least it may wake you up to the realities of life."
"The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ..."
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