Quotes about Reality

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that.... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.

We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.

Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

'The Chronicles of Narnia' are war-determined stories. I do not think Lewis could have written well or truthfully if he had tried to avoid the reality of war.

You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to die as individuals or as a species. Such a God, moreover, does not invite us to presume we can comprehend God's creation.

We need to keep our ears open to the realities of life. If we don't act on life and take action to make things happen, it will act on us and give us results we might not want.