Quotes about Reality
La realidad no me entusiasma, pero sigue siendo el único lugar donde se come decentemente.
— Ernest Cline
Casi siempre, la vida del ser humano es repugnante. Los videojuegos son lo único que la hacen soportable.
— Ernest Cline
and our seeming disregard for its effect on our already-changing climate—in an entirely new light.
— Ernest Cline
one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.
— Ernest Cline
That's the first rule of online romances, pal. No one ever looks anything like their avatar.
— Ernest Cline
I realized, as painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness.
— Ernest Cline
I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.
— Ernest Cline
I'd spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.
— Ernest Cline
The inner world is as real as the outer world. One ought to be conscious of that… These two worlds are fed by each other, you must not neglect one at the expense of the other, must not deem one more important than the other.
— Etty Hillesum
But sooner or later we find that not everything is to our liking in this book. It starts out sweet to our taste; and then we find it doesn't sit well with us at all, it becomes bitter in our stomachs. Finding ourselves in this book is most pleasant, flattering even, and then we find that the book is not written to flatter us, but to involve us in a reality, God's reality, that doesn't cater to our fantasies of ourselves.
— Eugene Peterson
Each act of obedience by the Christian is a modest proof, unequivocal for all its imperfection, of the reality of what he attests.
— Eugene Peterson
This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is.
— Eugene Peterson