435 quotes found
“Only other people can make you feel real.”
“Do you really believe that the moon isnt there when nobody looks?”
“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.”
“Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chim...”
“We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.”
“I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they'r...”
“I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.”
“We cuss them because we're not good enough for them. We hate them because they wouldn't look at us, couldn't be bothered to give us an interview. I guess there's a Trent & Brent in every city, in e...”
“There is nothing like within or without. Both mean either the same thing or nothing.”
“They'll take everything, even your tears.”
“What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.”
“A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.”
“All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.”
“Nothing exists; all is a dream. Godmanthe worldthe sun, the moon, the wilderness of starsa dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty spaceand you!”
“To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.”
“You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died.(In "The Naut...”
“The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; w...”
“I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there''s any chance of...”
“To live by worry is to live against reality”
“There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, l...”
