I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

A Coy Aversion…a fluttertoo shyto be seen…

Sometimes our fantasies are better than our realities.

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

an urgent need . . . to face hard reality.

There is no pathos more bitter than that of parting from someone we have never met.

What you end up experiencing is really a personal presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark, unfiltered experience of what is really out there. This mental manipulation of the outer experience...

To say “all that which does not exist” is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain...

The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the...

The reality of European resistance to Turkey’s membership in the European Union is precisely what Turkey fears, that is, the entry of a poor and highly populated Muslim state, … But the government in Ankara...

For a moment, the cardboard sets come crashing down to reveal that squalling monster, reality, locked up in the confines of its man-made cage. It is a fearsome thing, beautiful, inherent only to itself. Faced...

My heart is suffering from reality,so I go to sleep and dream I’m on a fairy tale

Proof, once again, that reality was not objective, but always waiting to be reshaped and redefined by one’s attitude.

Biology includes the study of the human death which began when you took your first breath

It?s the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency, because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that...

for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space...

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

people ask to much because they live in their own reality. not what reality really is.

I know, I’m not perfect, I’m not too good, I’m an average person in everything but I also know that I’m real. And really that’s enough for me and I’m very happy with it. 🙂

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl–there isn’t one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, then do they really say something? Or do they say nothing? People suppose that words...

For people who like that sort of thing, that’s the sort of thing they like.

I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.

Reality is a sliding door.

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in...

Sun and snow is an Angel’s glow, but storm and rain? That’s a Demon’s bane.

To the extent that we are trapped by the overvaluing, idealizing tendency, we are not free fully to celebrate the limited but real goods of creation. Idolatry by definition is not an accurate assessment of...

They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It’s not a fantasy picture. You’re dealing with something that’s supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.

Everyone is honest in their own right.. people begin to lie only when they are compelled to do it for others.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you’re lost in a book? You know the one – when whatever’s going on around you seems less real than what you’re reading and all you want...

Stop yourself the moment you begin to think there is a problem on the horizon. That thought immediately becomes the problem since our thoughts create our reality.

Look At Only The Reality Because Reality Is Better Than Fantasy

Action is what makes hope a reality.

Created visions of experiencing unreality.

The heresy of an age of reason,’ or some such slovos [words]. ‘I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That’s what I watch every night. By the time I’ve watched them, I don’t have time to watch reality TV shows.

But there is another way of using the equivalence, which is almost the opposite of allegory, and which I would call sacramentalism or symbolism. If our passions, being immaterial, can be copied by material inventions,...

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it’s not like the end of the world and it’s not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I’m able to divorce a perceived reality from...

You might plan how you sleep but you can’t plan how you wake up. He who plans how to sleep is a Planner, he who plans how to wake up is a Dreamer.

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society.

Temporary extreme fear while saying the truth is easy to overcome than the perpetual fear of the unspoken truth.

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn’t repel them.

If I had a project that I had auditioned for and I was getting close to getting it, I didn’t want to tell anybody because I thought then I wouldn’t get it, but in reality...

That’s the trouble with memories: everything seems much more fantastical with a childhood lens to filter out the limitations of reality.

Is it not late? A late time to be living? Are not our generations the crucial ones? For we have changed the world. Are not our heightened times the important ones? For we have nuclear...

Myth could be as sustaining as reality – sometimes even more so.

knowledge” of angels, and he devoted far more of his massive Summa Theologica to them than to physics.

As humans, reality for us is largely based on other people’s perceptions. If there’s 20 bodies in your crawl space but you haven’t been caught yet, you tell yourself you’re still a birthday clown, and...