reality Quotes

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will”

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:reality imagination

“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favorite feeling in the world.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:reality reading

“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border

topic:reality words

“Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

topic:reality thought

“Either things are, and appear so to be; or else they are not, and do not appear to be; or else they are, and do not appear to be; or else they are not, and yet appear to be.”

― Epictetus, Discourses

topic:reality appearance

“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

topic:heart reality

“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”

― André Malraux, Man's Fate

topic:reality suffering

“We’re both looking at the same moon, in the same world. We’re connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is quietly draw it towards me.”

― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

topic:reality

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:reality writing poetry

“I mean, at some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll look back down and see that you floated away, too.”

― John Green, Paper Towns

topic:reality desire

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