Quotes About Reality

What I want and what is true seldom have anything to do with each other

I guess that's what my dad did. Stopped agreeing with reality. I could do it for as long as it took me to get from my classroom to the office. He managed it for sixteen years. He must have had more mental discipline than me. Or maybe it wasn't that much of an effort to pretend that I didn't exist.

Fact is, the Rebels were trapped so tight in their harebrained dream of what the South was, even death wouldn't release them.

It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?

Farewells have reasons. If you can sense the reality, time is the medicine.

Our universe is not a 'was' or a 'will be' system. It is an 'is' system vibrating within the 'now' measurement of time.

Every time I had a vision of myself lying dead somewhere, it was up there, in the Highlands.

Time obliterates the fictions of opinion and confirms the decisions of nature.

What you see is what you get. My God, I don't have the time nor the energy to live up to some persona.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Medical theories are most of the time even more peculiar than the facts themselves.

Once upon a time, I thought denial was a river in Egypt. It's actually the attitude of the Abbott government.

Well, sir, if things are real, they're there all the time." "Are they?" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

Time is, as you are probably aware, merely a convenient fiction. There is no such thing as time.

Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion.

The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale starts with " This ain't no $hit"!

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.

All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not time. In fact, time doesn't exist.

The complexity of the connection between the world of perception and the world of physics does not preclude that such a connection can be shown to exist at any time.

Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

The first thing necessary for a constructive dealing with time is to learn to live in the reality of the present moment. For psychologically speaking, this present moment is all we have.