Quotes about Reality

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

The love is real in any situation; everything else is just an illusion.

Graduation, the hush-hush magic time of frills and gifts and congratulations and diplomas, was finished for me before my name was called. The accomplishment was nothing. The meticulous maps, drawn in three colors of ink, learning and spelling decasyllabic words, memorizing the whole of The Rape of Lucrece - it was for nothing. Donleavy had exposed us. We were maids and farmers, handymen and washerwomen, and anything higher that we aspired to was farcical and presumptuous.

Sounds came to me dully, as if people were speaking through their handkerchiefs or with their hands over their mouths. Colors weren't true either, but rather a vague assortment of shaded pastels that indicated not so much color as faded familiarities. People's names escaped me and I began to worry over my sanity.

I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

His room smelled of cooked grease, Lysol, and age, but his face believed the freshness of his words, and I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.

I think that everyone thought that the Depression like everything else, was for the white-folks, so it had nothing to do with them.

Believing that things happen too slowly or too quickly is an illusion. Timing is perfect.

Control is an illusion. It doesn't work.

It's not what we don't know that hurts us," people say. "It's what we believe is true that isn't that does the damage." There

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a fact, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system," wrote Dr. Wayne W. Dyer in Your Erroneous Zones.2

We will face and deal with reality—on our own time schedule, when we are ready, and in our Higher Power's timing. We do not have to accept chastisement from anyone, including ourselves, for this schedule. We will know what we need to know, when it's time to know it.