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.”
“A rat is neither good nor evil. It just does what a rat is suppose to do. From Phantom”
“...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 won’t 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 ...”
“Everything looks uglier close up.”
“The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is worthless. Probably only those things are worthwhile which can preserve their validity in the eyes ...”
“People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.”
“If anything is poisoning our lives and weakening our society it is reality - and not the fabrication of television writers and producers.”
“Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality because reality is a spirit.”
“We take our shape it is true within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.”
“You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today since like that of yesterday it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.”
