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Reality Quotes (page 36)

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality. Stephen Fry
And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means W. E. B. Du Bois
This little theater of mine has as many doors into as many boxes as you please, ten or a hundred thousand, and behind each door exactly what you seek awaits you. It is a pretty cabinet of pictures, my dear friend; but it would be quite useless to go through it as you are. You would be checked and blinded by it at every turn by what you are pleased to call your personality. You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be... Herman Hesse
Virginia Woolf quote: "How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive..."
How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling? Virginia Woolf
Freedom is not a constant attribute which we either "have" or "have not." In fact, there is no such thing as "freedom" except as a word and an abstract concept. There is only one reality: the act of freeing ourselves in the process of making choices. In this process the degree of our capacity to make choices varies with each act, with our practice of life. Erich Fromm
Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is "Thou shalt not question. Sigmund Freud
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams. Salvador Dali
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be. James Baldwin
In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality. Wilhelm Reich
Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with mathematics stretched beneath, was like an acrobat working with a net but suddenly noticing that in reality there is no net. Vladimir Nabokov
Ted Hughes quote: "What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller..."
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. Ted Hughes
Corrie Ten Boom quote: "Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality..."
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see. Corrie Ten Boom
There is more information in one thimble of reality than can be understood by a galaxy of human brains. It isbeyond the human brain to understand the world and its environment, so the brain compensates by creating simplifiedillusions that act as a replacement for understanding. Scott Adams
A love that does not bear collision with reality is not a real love. But then the inability to love is a privilege of the noble hearts. Albert Camus
No other library anywhere, for example, has a whole gallery of unwritten books - books that would have been written if the author hadn't been eaten by an alligator around chapter 1, and so on. Atlases of imaginary places. Dictionaries of illusory words. Spotter's guides to invisible things. Wild thesauri in the Lost Reading Room. A library so big that it distorts reality and has opened gateways to all other libraries, everywhere and everywhen... Terry Prachett

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