What’s the point of obsessing over cholesterol or bike helmets or even cigarettes when the biggest threats to our children are being released back into society every day? Yes, maybe ‘some’ of them have reformed,...

His home was populated by things and creatures from Niall Lynch’s dreams, and his mother was just another one of them

Reality is in a moment of now.

We’re wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn’t, we start looking around for the real world.

This is how you falsify reality, … The problem in India is not the Islamic fundamentalists. It’s the Hindu fundamentalists, who will destroy India in the end.

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 is both unbearable...

We would continue our commitments, president and cabinet, to the manner of negotiations as a strategic and political reality, through which we would pick up the fruits of our struggle and our people’s sacrifice.

The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dream on a summer’s day, was that it had not been long ago...

The wise have pitied the fool that hath striven to give a life In the world of time and space among the bulks of actual things,To dream that was dreamed in the heart, and that...

We are to blame if reality does not take the form we desire. Whatever we have not desired with sufficient strength, that we call nonexistent. Desire it, imbrue it with your blood, your sweat, your...

No authority is higher than reality.

I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

You see? I don’t know what ‘mature’ means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn’t know. It’s all just words to me, Frank. I watch you talking and I think: Isn’t...

Crazy isn’t a condition it’s a place and it exists somewhere between Love and Oblivion

Last year was a year of unprecedented volatility. The euphoria is gone and we’re back to reality.

Whenever we decide to create a greater degree of change in our lives we need to start doing things differently. Any external change only reflects the inner transformation. Hence whenever we decide to change our...

When we engraved the 442 names on the back of the medals – that’s when the reality sinks in. Everybody in the whole plant had to be involved to check the names and match the...

There is a point when facing the unknown stops being a longed-for adventure and becomes a terrifying reality.

Maybe the world didn’t need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever could. It didn’t matter if one was disobedient, foolish, or unlucky, because the...

Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction.

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

Cinema has become my life. I don’t mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

The past is always written for the future.

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

No matter who you are, everyone has a shadow; a constant darkness that follows them wherever they go…unless where you go is into the darkness itself, of course, because then you have already been consumed.

He wanted to be so many people all at the same time. He feared to be a nobody.Only years later did he realize that all he knew was what he didn’t want to be –...

Hepimiz, ama hepimiz köleyiz Will Henry…Bazılarımız korkunun kölesiyiz.Bazılarımızda mantığın ya da en ilkel arzularımızın kölesiyiz. Köle olmak kaderimiz. Will Henry, asıl mesele neye inanacağımız.Gerçeğe ya da yalana mı bağlı kalmalıyız, umuda ya da çaresizliğe mi,...

An individual’s perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire–not necessarily the color that it is.

I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as optical effects that is. I want to see the deeper reality underlying the...

The fantastic cannot exist independently of that ‘real’ world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.

dreamer” is somewhat of a putdown.Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.If you are a secret dreamer, it’s your time to announce...

Or — and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it — the book was true and reality was lying.

We modern human beings are looking at life, trying to make some sense of it; observing a ‘reality’ that often seems to be unfolding in a foreign tongue–only we’ve all been issued the wrong librettos....

…emotional reactions are pure after-all they can be neither manufactured nor changed.

To move from here to there, sometimes there is a need to suspend the present realities; they can be a distraction.

Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones.

Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it.Each thing only reminds us of what it isAnd it’s only what nothing else is.The fact that it’s it separates it from...

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appearobvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact oppositemay also be true in another context. After all, one’s reality is butperception, viewed through...

Tüm şımarık kızların aklına başına sonradan gelir ve muhtemel kabul görmenizi sağlayan bahaneleri de vardır.

Te vas pero también aquí te quedas. Si las ramas crecen queriendo ocupar el cielo entero, las raíces nunca abandonan la tierra donde nacieron

No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny’s house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because...

To each his own reality.

Multitasking is a highly overrated thing if you ask me. Today, we do everything in twos and threes. There is no longer time to stand and gaze, to look and ponder and to let your...

To live by worry is to live against reality

reality” make you lose faith in God and gain faith in Man. Don’t put your Joy in man because when man leaves, there goes your Joy. The world didn’t give you your joy and the...