Quotes about Reality

[Joe Gillis]: You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big.[Norma Desmond]: I am big. It's the pictures that got small.

From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom?

Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

I am not mad… but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

Authentic spiritual authority is what puts you in touch with reality.

I think our democracy has it exactly right: two terms, eight years. It's enough. Because it's important to have one foot in reality when you have access to this kind of power.

There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you live outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature. Muad'Dib came to tell you about that. Without understanding his message, you cannot revere him!

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?

He thinks that by repeating he creates some kind of truth.