Quotes about Reality

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

When someone asks us where we want to be in our lives, the last thing that occurs to us is to look down at our feet and say, 'Here, I guess, since this is where I am.'

People think they know what they want but they generally don't. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways.

When you trust your television What you get is what you got Cause when they own the information, oh They can bend it all they want.

Most believers struggle to really believe in the supernatural as a meaningful, deterministic reality except during moments when they are drawn to it, perhaps during a worship service or while reading a novel like 'Adam.' Being drawn to this truth is the first step to living a life in accordance to this truth.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.

Truth never perishes (Veritas numquam perit).

But liturgy is meant to be an interruption. It disrupts our reality and refocuses it on God. It reshapes our perceptions and lives with new rhythms, new holy days, a whole new story.

Sin, too, is real. All we have to do is look at the news or, if our vision is good enough, look in the mirror.

to believe in another world despite the evidence around us, and to watch the evidence change.