435 quotes found
“Don’t be an interpreter of reality, be a visionary. Don’t think about it, see it!”
“Nothing is real. There is only what we believe in and what we reject.”
“the worst thing, the thing that makes me want to blow my brains out, is: The secondhand experience is always better. The image is crisper, the view is keener, the camera angle and the soundtrack ma...”
“MARIEAs the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.WOYZECKI saw him.MARIEYou can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, ...”
“But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.”
“They say All is well In the world of sickness But we know All is sick In the world of wellness”
“What saves us all are the deeds of fools as often as the acts of the wise.”
“You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, lon...”
“the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers”
“He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swa...”
“Later she came to realise that under one reality there’s always another. And another one under that.”
“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”
“Look at yourself, you’re old, too, but still doing your work. This is what we are, Philips. This is what we are.”
“…reality catches up with you eventually.”
“The physical world exists, but that’s only the paint and canvas; that’s only the instrument we use to make music; that’s only the stage where the play is performed.”
“This was not as real as my despairing sense that nothing was real for me, nothing would ever be real for me again – unless, indeed, this sensation of falling was reality…”
“Because sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.”
“Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of t...”
“You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.”
“He could see the tall, peeling yellow building at the periphery of his range of vision. But something about it struck him as strange. A shimmer, an unsteadiness, as if the building faded forward in...”
