Quotes about Reality

Sometimes he gets high, on the pot that circulates as freely as cigarettes did once. He thinks he should be enjoying this experience more than he actually does.

I have to be more careful about my memories, I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I were talking about a castle in the air, something that can Ii never come true.

For a long time now I didn't know why I was bothering to do any schoolwork. The end of the war still seemed so far away, so unreal, like a fairy tale.

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality.

Everyone has come to understand that unconditional love is a reality, but with as shelf life of about eight to ten seconds.

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.