Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: ‘It doesn’t really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.’ He pushed the thought under instantly. The...

Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better

We can’t always have our druthers.

The three rules of journalism are 1. Mislead, 2. Misinform, and 3. Misdirect. The news serves to sever you from reality and keep you in Fantasy Land.

I think that bogey might have been good for me, because it put me back, brought me back to reality that I really had to still play golf. I wasn’t really in contention. It sort...

Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself. Life is too short for you to judge, persecute, hurt yourself. The battle is not yours but the Lord. 2 chronicles 20:15. Leave everything...

Where I’m living is not a storybook world. It’s the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.

Imagine, Bishop, that you have a beloved cat, but that your cat is not with you. If you close your eyes and further imagine you are petting your cat, the same neurons in your brains...

The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence – because he couldn’t whisper and they didn’t want to wake Colin’s parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the...

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

We need a reality check. Japan has still got a challenging demographic profile, managements that are less than dynamic and a government that is still very bureaucratic.

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one’s own life.

What happens is always worth more than words.

I love digging myself into books because the moment I’m drifted from reality, I’m in a different world and I’m a different person.

Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams… but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

One’s appreciation of, and understanding of the normal or the usual is requisite for any understanding of the abnormal or the unusual.

To get from the tangible to the intangible (which mature artists in any medium claim as part of their task) a paradox of some kind has frequently been helpful. For the photographer to free himself...

Time is the key to the heart of reality.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird...

Surrealism also refuses the representation of reality: reality can only be; its existence proves its reality. Fiction thereby becomes impossible or is, by definition, false.

The very nature of the quantum theory … forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the...

You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

You do not even think of your own past as quite real; you dress it up, you gild it or blacken it, censor it, tinker with it…fictionalize it, in a word, and put it away...

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life — past, present, and future. To understand biology is to understand that all life is linked to the earth from...

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a VIP.

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade…

You’ll notice you don’t have both feet on the ground when you don’t have any friends around

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

The sad truth is,we are all grown ups and most of us arematured.However, not all of us are old enough toaccept that loving someone doesn’tguarantee you that they will love you inreturn.

He was a solitary figure in a vast landscape while she was a face in a nameless crowd.

Life is a joke, even though it is not always funny.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

From dreams reality is born.

Until now, I’ve been writing about “now” as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and mental...

Reality is coincidence of hallucinations.

When you mix with the wrong energy, there’s bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What’s really real, is ultimately revealed.

It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else’s version of what...

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing...

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I’m the one that’s alive. You’re all dead.

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.