Quotes About Reality

My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.

Time does not exist - we invented it

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.

I see a lot of young kids hit me on Twitter all the time, like, 'I want to be famous! Listen to my mixtape! I wish I could be like you!' But a lot comes with it. It's not easy.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time.

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

Time is passing, ... We have to look at the reality of the situation and ... redouble our efforts and get on with it.

How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate physical sensations and my state of mind?

Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?

For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

Maybe 90 percent of the time it looks like I'm not having a good time.

I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"

We don't have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.