#reality

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you. ↗

— George Orwell

#imagination

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality. ↗

— Bede Griffiths

#reality #religion #spirit #imagination

Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now? ↗

— Adyashanti

#reality #thoughts #imagination

If only I could fall sound asleep and wake up in my old reality! ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#reality #dreams

‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic. ↗

— Garth Nix

#longing #real-world #reality #dreams

Build your castle of dreams but don't live in it. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#reality #dreams

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can. ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#dreams #emotion #reality #dreams

How do we know we're not people in a movie?' she asked. I looked at her not knowing how to reply. Mama, [...] how do we know that things are real?' Great. Now we have a junior existentialist in the house. Well, we don't know. We just have to hope that what we think is real is real.' But how do we know?' she asked, insistently. Ah, a scientist, who wants empirical evidence. We don't know. We just have to hope.' Mama, how do we know things aren't a dream? You know, how sometimes life feels like a dream? Do you ever feel that way?' Yes, sweetie, I feel that way all the time. ↗

— Julie Metz

#daughter #dreams #life #mother #reality

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality. ↗

— B.J. Neblett

#faults #lessons #reality #today #tomorrow

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. ↗

— Eugène Ionesco

#imagination #realism #reality #truth #death