Quotes about Reality

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth." —Marianne Williamson

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?