Quotes About Reality

We're all f***ed, it helps to remember that.

It's all bullshit, folks.

Life gets really simple once you cut out all the bullshit they teach you in school.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with.

We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.

Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel, broken glass and rags.

Doubtless some ancient Greek has observed that behind the big mask and the speaking-trumpet, there must always be our poor little eyes peeping as usual and our timorous lips more or less under anxious control.

people were so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's were transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone were rosy.

What we call the 'just possible' is sometimes true and the thing we find it easier to believe is grossly false.

Things look dim to old folks: they'd need have some young eyes about 'em, to let 'em know the world's the same as it used to be.

Human experience is usually paradoxical, if that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

A perfectly sane intellect is hardly at home in this insane world.

But I wasn't worth doing wrong for---- nothing is in this world. Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

She felt that she was beginning to know the pang of disappointed love, and that no other man could be the occasion of such delightful aerial building as she had been enjoying for the last six months.

I have often felt since I have been in Rome that most of our lives would look much uglier and more bungling than the pictures, if they could be put on the wall." Dorothea

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

I still think that the greater part of the world is mistaken about many things. Surely one may be sane and yet think so, since the greater part of the world has often had to come round from its opinion.

Un'intelligenza perfettamente sana è sempre un po' spaesata in questo pazzo mondo.

That is a way of speaking--it is not acted upon, it is not real, said Gwendolen, bitterly. You admire Miss Lapidoth because you think her blameless, perfect. And you know you would despise a woman who had done something you thought very wrong. That would depend entirely upon her own view of what she had done, said Deronda.

The world outside the books was not a happy one, Maggie felt; it seemed to be a world where people behaved the best to those they did not pretend to love, and that did not belong to them.

No one thinks of your appearance, you are so sensible and useful, Mary. Beauty is of very little consequence in reality

our lives would look much uglier and more bungling than the pictures, if they could be put on the wall.

I protest against all our interest, all our effort at understanding being given to the young skins that look blooming in spite of trouble; for these too will get faded, and will know the older and more eating griefs which we are helping to neglect. In