"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."

Reality, Truth, Acceptance, Awareness

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"There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but you haven't told anyone yet."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reality, Change, Perception, Mindset

"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reality, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

Ray Bradbury, American Writer

Reality, World, Existence, Night, Voice

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Reality, Chaos, Emotion, Music, Thought

"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Reality, Life, Death, Suffering

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Reality, Thoughts, Destiny, Perception

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Reality, Sadness, Life, Purpose, Truth

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Reality, Horror, Disgust, Perception

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Reality, Pace, Limits, Perception

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Reality, Culture, World, Truth, Self

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"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

Time

"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

Philosophy

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

Reflection

"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

Life

"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

Philosophy

"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."

Knowledge

"It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself."

Psychology

"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."

Nature

"Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand."

Philosophy

"Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother."

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"To change reality, change your thoughts and perceptions."

"If some people came into contact with anything real they would be shocked out of their minds."

"No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it."

"They scattered with no melody, no harmony, no rhythm to hold them. If music was emotion and emotion came from thought, then this was the scream of chaos, of the irrational, of the helpless, of man's self-abdication."

"The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive."

"Not the reality, but your thoughts define your destiny."

"It is so sad that too many individuals spend their entire lives trying to impress people who are mostly clueless about their true purpose on earth."

"He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming indistinguishable sameness."

"It is impossible for a man to outpace his shadow."

"We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves."

Explore more quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

"It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time."

"Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you're good, bad things can still happen. And if you're bad, you can still be lucky."

"This will be Great Mam's last spring. Her last June apples. Her last fresh roasting ears from the garden."

"Like many human beings, he took the least sign of conversation as his cue to make noise."

"But if we can't summon the empathy to imagine what our dead would have asked of us, or the selflessness to give it, then we must accept the desperately sad verdict that each generation's hopes will die with it, and no cumulative progress is possible for the human will."

"Science doesn't tell us what we should do. It only tells us what is."

"It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself."

"A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever."

"Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity *after* their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand."

"Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother."

"Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eternity after their deaths than the eternity that happened before they were born. But it's the same amount of infinity, rolling out in all directions from where we stand."