R Quotes
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“Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.”
Source: A Personal Anthology
“Reality may be too complex for oral transmission; legend recreates it in a manner which is only accidentally false and which allows it to go about the world, from mouth to mouth.”
Source: A Personal Anthology
“Reality may not always be a happy companion. If we learn to trust ourselves and fully put through our paces, we can discover something like a winner's soul ignoring itself and passing with flying colors. The future can be an open space with a range of surprises. ("What after bowling alone?" )”
“Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak.”
“Reality may not be what you want it to be, but it is the reality you now must face. You can deny this reality and try to wish it away, or you can accept it and not waste any energy on wanting it to be different.”
“Reality! May we be friends! While I embrace "extraordinary possibility," my favorite mistress.”
Source: The Monkey in the Basement and Other Delusions
“Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.”
Source: Survivor: A Novel
“Reality might be described as the eternal equipoise of positive and negative.”
Source: Outline: A Novel
“Reality must be caught in the trap, we must move quicker than reality. Ideas, too, have to move faster than their shadows. But if they go too quickly, they lose even their shadows. No longer having even the shadow of an idea. ... Words move quicker than meaning, but if they go too quickly, we have madness: the ellipsis of meaning can make us lose even the taste for the sign. What are we to exchange this portion of shadow and labour against -- this saving of intellectual activity and patience? What can we sell it to the devil for? It is very difficult to say. We are, in fact, the orphans of a reality come too late, a reality which is itself, like truth, something registered only after the event.”
Source: The Perfect Crime
“Reality must be expressed by a physical symbol.”
“Reality must prove itself again and again to questioners ... it is the fantasy which goes on without contradiction, without having to prove itself.”
Source: The towers of Toron
“Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric is
reality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where I
was on the other side. So that’s why I don’t want to go back, and
why you wouldn’t like it.”
Source: This Strange and Precious Thing
“Reality needs life to exist,
does that mean reality forces life somehow to live?”
“Reality now and again becomes like a vengeful troll, and most notably so when it comes to passion: When reality and passion divorce, it makes passion look crazy.”
“Reality of life" - can be measured by Typewriter Machines; where mistakes can't be Erased or Rectify in the 'Paper of Life Story' - /•|•\ T∆Nv€€π \•|•/”
“Reality of life is cold and unforgiving. We spend all our life, trying to stay warm, alive and loved. The last thing that dies with us is hope. Hope most of the time is hanging by a fragile string, yet if we let go of hope, there is no future.”
Source: Emotional Rhapsody
“Reality of life is just a dream, and living the dream is just reality that never comes true”
“Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen”
Source: Purification of the Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart : Translation and Commentary of Imam Mawlud's Matharat Al-Qulub
“Reality often holds the facts that we desperately wish to avoid, but at the same time it holds the ingredients of the dreams that we hope to achieve.”
“Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”
“Reality opens the door, truth walks in.
Truth opens the door, knowledge walks in.
Knowledge opens the door, wisdom walks in.
Wisdom opens the door, God walks in.
God opens the door, enlightenment walks in.”
“Reality poisons the spring of fantasy, whereas fantasy, when it erupts into the real world, brings destruction in its wake.”
Source: The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
“Reality presents itself always in the form of a specific concrete situation, and since each life situation is unique, it follows that also the meaning of a situation must be unique. Therefore it would not even be possible for meanings to be transmitted through traditions. Only values– which might be defined as universal meanings— can be affected by the decay of traditions… to put it succinctly: the values are dead–long live the meanings.”
Source: The Unheard Cry for Meaning
“Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.”
Source: The Passion According to G.H.
“Reality programmers endeavor to marry modern technology with tried and true techniques of the ancients. Many reality programmers are, unsurprisingly, naturally connected to EMF; they have dedicated a great deal of time and energy learning to enhance, tune, and purify signal strength within their bodies and with the unseen”
Source: Beyond the Fringe: My Experience with Extended Intelligence
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
“Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.”
“Reality relies on your imagination to create scenarios for your life.”
Source: Life’s Events In Focus
“Reality resides in your strongest thoughts.”
“Reality's where other people are," Ronan replied. He stretched out his arms. "What's here, K? Nothing! No one!"
"Just us."
There was a heavy understanding in that statement, amplified by the dream. I know what you are, Kavinsky had said.
"That's not enough," Ronan replied.
"Don't say Dick Gansey, man. Do not say it. He is never going to be with you. And don't tell me you don't swing that way, man. I'm in your head."
"That's not what Gansey is to me," Ronan said.
"You didn't say you don't swing that way."
Ronan was silent. Thunder growled under his feet. "No, I didn't.”
Source: The Dream Thieves
“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
Source: Suicide: A Study in Sociology
“Reality shall reach you somewhere in between A and Z still and all creativity shall reach you anywhere in between Zero and Infinity”
“Reality Shifts with Angle of Perception”
“Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.”
“Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but thats not reality, its just another aesthetic form of fiction.”
“Reality shows are for reality stars. Celebrities do, maybe, Dancing With The Stars, maybe they might do Celebrity Wife Swap, but dealing with strangers, with people you don't know, in a real situation? People say it's fake, it's based on what they tell other people to do but won't tell you, but you still have a gut reaction, you know.”
“Reality shows are usually created by people doing and saying stupid things.”
“Reality simply consists of different points of view.”
“Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.”
Source: Nation
“Reality speaks itself; it needs nothing for that.”
“Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.”
“Reality tastes like ashes”
“Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape.”
“Reality television is a scripted hyper-life that employs writers, but won't allow them to call themselves writers or join the union.”
“Reality television is less honest than YouTube. YouTube is the real reality.”
“Reality television was in some ways being unimaginative at that time. We were excited about the possibilities of the form, to use real people as your stars, to not be about winning, to be about going on complicated, challenging, funny, dramatic journeys.”
“Reality television, anybody can be a star at any minute.”
“Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?”
Source: Espresso Tales
“Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem.”
Source: A Grief Observed
“Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation.”
Source: When We Cease to Understand the World