Reality Quotes
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![Boris Pasternak](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651536138i/7902._UX200_CR0,30,200,200_.jpg)
“About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.”
― Doctor Zhivago
― Doctor Zhivago
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.”
― Healology
― Healology
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
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![Laini Taylor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224474224i/324620._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“As for fairy tales, he understood that they were reflections of the people who had spun them, and were flecked with little truths - intrusions of reality into fantasy, like toast crumbs on a wizard's beard.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
![Cassandra Clare](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1689347318i/150038._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“It's like Dungeons and Dragons, but real."
Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect. "It's like what?"
"It's a game," Clary explained. She felt vaguely embarrassed. "People pretend to be wizards and elves, and they kill monsters and stuff."
Jace looked stupefied.
Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?"
"I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct."
Simon looked disappointed. "You've never killed a dragon?"
"He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either," Clary said irritably. "Lay off, Simon."
"Real elves are about eight inches tall," Jace pointed out. "Also, they bite.”
― City of Bones
Jace was looking at Simon as if he were some bizarre species of insect. "It's like what?"
"It's a game," Clary explained. She felt vaguely embarrassed. "People pretend to be wizards and elves, and they kill monsters and stuff."
Jace looked stupefied.
Simon grinned. "You've never heard of Dungeons and Dragons?"
"I've heard of dungeons," Jace said. "Also dragons. Although they're mostly extinct."
Simon looked disappointed. "You've never killed a dragon?"
"He's probably never met a six-foot-tall hot elf-woman in a fur bikini, either," Clary said irritably. "Lay off, Simon."
"Real elves are about eight inches tall," Jace pointed out. "Also, they bite.”
― City of Bones
![Malcolm Muggeridge](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1564567861i/17437._UY200_CR77,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”
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![Tsugumi Ohba](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1476730775i/5502079.jpg)
“There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.”
― Bakuman, Volume 3: Debut and Impatience
― Bakuman, Volume 3: Debut and Impatience
“How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.”
― To All the Boys I've Loved Before
― To All the Boys I've Loved Before
![Niels Bohr](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206830940i/821936._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.”
― Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. 2)
― Essays 1932-1957 on Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (The Philosophical Writings of Niels Bohr, Vol. 2)
![Steve Maraboli](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1574364064i/4491185._UY200_CR10,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Your opinion is not my reality.”
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
― Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
![Bessel van der Kolk](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1617660077i/21280926._UY200_CR18,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality.”
― Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
― Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society
![Hunter S. Thompson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206560814i/5237._UY200_CR17,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "consciousness expansion" without ever giving a thought to the grim meat-hook realities that were lying in wait for all the people who took him seriously... All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding for three bucks a hit. But their loss and failure is ours too. What Leary took down with him was the central illusion of a whole life-style that he helped create... a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that somebody... or at least some force - is tending the light at the end of the tunnel.”
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
― Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
![Eugene O'Neill](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1454092985i/7680._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I didn’t meet a soul. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land. The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. As if I had drowned long ago. As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.”
― Long Day’s Journey into Night
― Long Day’s Journey into Night
![Steven Decker](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1723387308i/7448339._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things, and we want to be part of it.”
― Projector for Sale
― Projector for Sale
![Aldous Huxley](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1547138835i/3487._UY200_CR11,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.”
― The Genius and the Goddess
― The Genius and the Goddess
![Haruki Murakami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615497402i/3354._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.”
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
― South of the Border, West of the Sun
![Jack Kerouac](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1544568646i/1742._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.”
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![L.M. Montgomery](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1188896723i/5350._UX200_CR0,56,200,200_.jpg)
“In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart's Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.”
― Anne of the Island
― Anne of the Island
![Diane Merrill Wigginton](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1460754144i/8355606._CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“Crickey, love, what happened here? Are you hurt?” he asked, lifting her to her feet, the surfboard leash still wrapped around her foot.
Her eyes worked their way up his torso, along the plush green towel hugging his midsection. Catherine couldn’t help staring at his well-formed abs and chest before making her way up to his concerned eyes.
“Obviously I fell,” Catherine said. “I think I got a splinter.”
“Let me see,” Jake insisted, taking her hand into his. “It’s small. I can take care of that in a snap.”
Staring up into his deep blue eyes, Catherine could feel herself drowning in the depths of them, unconsciously resting her other hand upon his dampened chest to steady herself.”
― A Compromising Position
Her eyes worked their way up his torso, along the plush green towel hugging his midsection. Catherine couldn’t help staring at his well-formed abs and chest before making her way up to his concerned eyes.
“Obviously I fell,” Catherine said. “I think I got a splinter.”
“Let me see,” Jake insisted, taking her hand into his. “It’s small. I can take care of that in a snap.”
Staring up into his deep blue eyes, Catherine could feel herself drowning in the depths of them, unconsciously resting her other hand upon his dampened chest to steady herself.”
― A Compromising Position
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, “Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you’re not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need.”
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![Sylvia Plath](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1613135175i/4379._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
--from "Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle", written 1954”
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And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
--from "Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle", written 1954”
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![Stefan Zweig](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1190140738i/25573._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story
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