Quotes about Reality

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.

Truth has no temperature.

If you're sane enough to know that you're crazy then you're not as crazy as if you thought you were sane.

Can't stop what's coming. Ain't no waiting on you. That's vanity.

Snowflake. You catch the snowflake but when you look in your hand you don't have it no more. Maybe you see this dechado. But before you see it it is gone. If you want to see it you have to see it on its own ground. If you catch it you lose it. And where it goes there is no coming back from. Not even God can bring it back.

I no longer have an opinion about reality. I used to. Now I dont. The first rule of the world is that everything vanishes forever. To the extent that you refuse to accept that then you are living in a fantasy.

The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

I think what is being pointed out is that human consciousness and reality are not the same thing.

In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk.

I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.