#reality

We have gained reality and lost dream. No more lounging under a tree and peering at the sky between one's big and second toes; there's work to be done. To be efficient, one cannot be hungry and dreamy but must eat steak and keep moving. ↗

— Robert Musil

#reality #dreams

Doesn't love have to be tested by reality and time, or else isn't it only a dream? ↗

— Jo Beverley

#jo-beverly #love #malloren #reality #test

None of it is real, though, because reality lies in a different, more evanescent realm. These are only the names of some of the places in the archipelago of dreams. The true reality is the one you perceive around you, or that which you are fortunate enough to imagine for yourself. ↗

— Christopher Priest

#reality #dreams

I knew in that moment, we were never meant to surrender our childlike innocence, to trade a world in which we fit like a glove for one that hung on us like ill-fitting hand-me-downs. However, all about us insisted on our membership. And instead of a handshake or a mystical password as entrance into this spurious society, we agreed instead to share a lie, the one that says we’re safe, secure, and fulfilled living this way. ↗

— Christina Carson

#friendship #health-and-healing #metaphysics #quantum-reality #friendship

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#dreams #funny #future #inspirational-quotes #life

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#difficulty #even #film #given #good

You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. ↗

— Hermann Weyl

#long #mathematics #reality #still #words

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you. ↗

— Stuart Wilde

#end #forces #in the end #reality #upon

Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about. ↗

— Elias Williams

#real #reality-check #inspirational

No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved. ↗

— Anne Rice

#aunt #blackwood #book #farm #lestat