Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew...

Action is what makes hope a reality.

Every attempt to fix eternity is an escape from reality. I will be plaguing my days with moments and minutes. For ever is too far!

Conchpore is real. It is as real as Malgudi, Brahmpur, Lilliput or Macondo. And also as real as San Francisco, Madurai, Edinburgh, Gaborone or Tokyo. You know that fictional towns exist. You visit them all the time.

Keep your innocence and ignorance aside, and expose yourself to dangerous situations, and understand the deeper secrets of life.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

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.

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

reality sucks, that’s probably why we dream. Why our bodies need sleep. So we can escape. Escape this earth, at least just for a little while. Everynight, we get to go away. Sleep is the only time I feel safe. The only time I can leave this place. This reality that feels like needles sticking...

Like a child standing in a beautiful park with his eyes shut tight, there’s no need to imagine trees, flowers, deer, birds, and sky; we merely need to open our eyes and realize what is already here, who we already are – as soon as we stop pretending we’re small or unholy.

The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you’re dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that’s a concern no matter what kind of movie you’re dealing with.

Bizde itiraf yoktur.Biz de bahane, mazeret, sebep, kulp, kılıf, bir dokun bir ah işit vardır. “Yaptım ama bir sor, niye yaptım”dır bizde itirafın karşılığı. Madem yakaladın suçumu, sor ki sebebini anlatayım, kıvırayım, dolandırayım, böyle asıl mağdurun ben olduğumu gör! (Anladım, mağdur olmak sadece benim karakterim değilmiş, mağdur olmak genetik karakterimizmiş.)

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization’s most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a...

Stop Dreaming rather than avoiding your Reality ‘coz reality is better than your Dreams….

All we know is what we’re told.

it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright

I’ve always felt that the reality of life is best expressed through allegory that transcends…well, the reality of life. Fantasy is the lens through which I make sense of the world. Plus, it’s a lot more entertaining.

The Amorous Shepherd is a fruitless interlude, but those few poems are among the world’s greatest love poems, because they’re love poems about love, not about being poems. The poet loves because he loves, not because love exists.

Sometimes, falling back on or using an old method or habit, is like sliding into a pair of worn running shoes and a corset. Doesn’t make sense to others, but it’s not for them. It’s what keeps you together, what keeps you going.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Man, do you ever feel it’s just the hope of things we live for?’ I asked. ‘I mean, it’s like the things themselves are just a big disappointment, you know? We like the searching, the dreaming. It’s sort oflike the way previews for a movie are better than the film itself sometimes. What was that...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Part ways with your perception of reality, allow the unknown and your curiosity muster into a visual you’ve never allowed yourself to see.

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigidly identified with their mental positions as the followers of any political ideology that is closed to any alternative interpretation of reality.

There is no corelation between life and death, except that life is the biggest lie we believed, while death; is the most certain truth.

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in...

The world and humanity were created by God and are therefore divinely inspired and intrinsically holy.

When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

They’ll take everything, even your tears.

Odysseus draped the towel over his shoulders and stretched his back. “You remember practicing with wooden swords? All the moves, the blocks, the counters, getting your footwork right, learning how to be in balance always?””Of course you were a hard master.””And you recall the first time you went into a real fight, with blood being...

If ‘truth’ is an ‘unveiled reality,’ then my truth may not be your truth yet!

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goalbut the ultimate condition of life.

If you’re not doing what you want to do. However, you still think about it every day. This means you have not given up. Only you know what action will make it happen and thought is an action. Keep focusing on what you want to do and figure out how to turn your thoughts into...

The reality is: when you’re slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.

…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…

Ah youth, youth! That’s what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare

One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set… the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it… could be dismantled overnight.

The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be.

Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.

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, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys.

You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I’m terrified by reality.

Magoo’s appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he’s not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

I came to America with a dream and I made it. The dream became reality. America is built for success.

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.

There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

If there is no certain reality, the idea of following a leader must be scrutinized.