435 quotes found
“You're a romantic, said Crabbe. You expect too much. Reality's always dull, you know, but when we see that it's all there is, well-it miraculously ceases to be dull.”
“Someone who begins to develop an interest in the teachings can tend to distance themselves from the reality of material things, as if the teachings were something completely apart from daily life. ...”
“A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom”
“For a moment, the cardboard sets come crashing down to reveal that squalling monster, reality, locked up in the confines of its man-made cage. It is a fearsome thing, beautiful, inherent only to it...”
“Life isn't about what you're waiting for ..It's about what you're living for.”
“...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas stretched over an interlacing of cables like the ...”
“One in a million cases; such comforting odds, except when you were the one”
“Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that wont ever make em muffins.”
“Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.”
“When you prick a person with a needle, red blood comes out- that's the real world.”
“Writing is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves i...”
“Everything looks uglier close up.”
“Reality is created out of confusion and contradiction, and if you exclude those elements, you're no longer talking about reality. You might think that --by following language and a logic that appea...”
“We tend to forget that everything has an ending, so enjoy it while you can still see it around you.”
“Words are the tools we use to express our reality.”
“The dumbest thing one could ever do is to hold on to something that is slippery”
“Like a fire alarm going off in your ear, sulfur up your nose, mouth full of sour milk, reality is what it is you deal with it.”
“Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition...”
“Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skille...”
“This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore.”
