Quotes About Reality

Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

What you call man is time.

Physics should represent a reality in time and space, free from spooky action at a distance.

I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.

If I got a dollar every time someone told me to name my future kid 'Batmo' I'd almost have enough to pay for therapy for a kid named Batmo.

I think it takes a long time, as you get older, to realize just how crazy the world is, just how ridiculous it all is.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.

We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

Remember, constantly, that when you talk about 'tense of a subjunctive,' you're not talking about time. You're slipping through degrees of reality.

The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real.

Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.

We don't live in Disneyland. We live in blood and in time, not in Fantasyland. We live in a tragic world.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

All incarnations are lived at once, and yet there does seem to be a linear sense of time when you're in the vortex of time and space, when your consciousness is fixated in a body.

Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

Mt. Everest of Earth is 8.8 km tall; Mt. Olympus of Mars is 22 km tall. Every time you see a giant, you must know that that giant might be just a dwarf somewhere else!