Quotes About Reality

Pornography won't be enough. Because it never is. Sooner or later, all niggers want to touch the real thing. All dogs want to smell and taste the true information. All artists want to make their fantasies reality. And everyone with a cock wants to use it to fall in love.

If it's reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books.

Hicieron planes, planes de viajes, planes para la vida. Sus planes eran más reales que su vida.

The only driver for his work was desire, a kind of hunger for reality, for presence, and also for intimacy, as opposed to publicity. In a very wide sense, he was interested in transcendence.

Qué somos, en definitiva, sin nuestras mentiras?

Man darf nichts erwarten, nur so hält man durch. Geduld reicht nicht, weil nichts geschieht. Im Wald gibt es keine Zukunft und keine Vergangenheit, alles findet im Moment statt oder über Zeiträume, die nicht in Jahren gemessen werden können.

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Rarely can they claim to be simply a mirror of events. Like eyewitness reports, images deliver an interpretation of an event from a specific perspective: subjective, sometimes partisan, sometimes manipulative. Anyone who believes a photograph captures "reality" is naïve. Why a picture was taken, who distributed it, what their intention was - these questions must be asked again and again. Photographs can only speak to us only after we have mistrusted and challenged them.

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes.

The truth is an ambition which is beyond us.

Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us

Reality is that which, when you don't believe in it, doesn't go away.

She did not kill anyone, Perry insisted, because at the time of the 1990 murders, "Donna" did not exist. Whatever evidence the police had was associated with Douglas Perry, her former male incarnation.

You had hoped that smarter creatures would be wiser ones.

I know, I know: it can be frustrating as hell. But people have an unfortunate habit of assuming they understand the reality just because they understood the analogy. You dumb down brain surgery enough for a preschooler to think he understands it, the little tyke's liable to grab a microwave scalpel and start cutting when no one's looking.

After four thousand years we can't even prove that reality exists beyond the mind of the first-person dreamer.

If you can see it, chances are it doesn't exist.

Planck length and Planck time had always looked a bit too much like pixel dimensions for comfort.

Let's just agree that neither side has a monopoly on assholes. The point is, once you recognize that every human model of reality is fundamentally unreal, then it all just comes down to which one works best.

Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.

They never experience the past tense. It's just another thread to them. They don't remember stuff, they relive it.

All science ever did was measure a teensy sliver of the universe and assume that everything else behaved the same way.