#reality

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#game-of-thrones #reality #truth #courage

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#reality #writing #art

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality. ↗

— Frida Kahlo

#i #my own #never #nightmares #own

الفن يجب أن يفاجئ الواقع. ↗

— فرانسواز ساجان

#reality #art

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#reality #art

Truth must be found in reality, not systems. ↗

— Joseph Beuys

#truth #art

I'm fighting a long term disease it's called Death and I will have it until I take my last breath ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#disease #life #reality #death

Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys, and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me. That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#reality #relationships #life

And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should now transform into a princess - dazzlingly beautiful, free, and made wise by her hardship. That is not what happened. ↗

— Helen Oyeyemi

#reality-sucks #beauty

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #reality #beauty