Quotes About Reality

Maybe it's time we all stop trying to outsmart the truth and let it have its day.

We cannot be present and run our story-line at the same time.

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

As in, I think 'Badlands' is one of the funniest films of all time: "Every day I wish I was carried off to a magical land, but that never happened" is one of the funniest lines in any film.

Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a summary court in perpetual session.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

I believe every day when I wake up and go to bed and during my dreaming time there's some moment of truth that's in front of me that will always be in front of me until the end of days.

I am all for titillating trivialities. I am all for the epic touch. I could almost say that everything in Time, should be either titillating or epic or starkly, supercurtly factual.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

Time is an absurdity. An abstraction. The only thing that matters is this moment.

Our linear concept of time means nothing to nature.

Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.

Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible.

Television is in a different time because of reality television, so it's not as exciting.

Passing time adds false memories and modifies real ones.

The speed of time is one second per second.

You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like that all the time.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.