Reality Quotes - Page 12

This time it is real - all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

God is the same, even though He has a thousand names; it is up to us to select a name for Him.

God's dream is interwoven into reality by humans.

In all humility
let it be said -
there's no god
in End Reality
but Oneness
unto all is All -
Whole's Unity.

Angels, fairies, gods, hell-heaven, "mediating" messiahs, demons, spirits etc. - are but your cultural-isms. Free be of these prisons.

Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.

Impending doom, it was a familiar sweater, we all wore it and as scratchy as it felt against our skin, we kept it on.

I hope your heart feels better. 
I hope your mind is set right.
I hope your love is connected to others, and you don't feel so lost and locked up.
I hope everything is okay for you. 
And by okay, I mean greater than ever.

I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

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

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.

I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and yet still spend most of my time in the better reality of my mind.

Poetry's task is to increase the available stock of reality, R P Blackmur said.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.