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Quotes About Reality

I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.
~ Jean Seberg
I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.
~ Jimi Hendrix
When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...Don't let me ever hear you say, 'I can't read fiction. I only have time for the truth.' Fiction is the truth, fool! Ever hear of 'literature'? That means fiction, too, stupid.
~ John Waters
A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.
~ Arthur Koestler
You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.
~ Bill Mechanic
Having spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
~ Brent Spiner
If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now
~ C. S. Lewis
She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.
~ Charles Bukowski
The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.
~ Craig Clevenger
When we pass through what we call death, we do not loose the world. Indeed, we see it for the first time as it really is.
~ Dallas Willard
We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.
~ Deepak Chopra
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.
~ Deepak Chopra
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Just so you know, when they say "Once upon a time" . . . they're lying
~ Jodi Picoult
I think any time you've got a story based on a true story, no matter how accurate it is, obviously it's still fictitious.
~ John Lee Hancock
Televisions and movies have made many Americans into habitual consumers of synthetic experience-audiovisual fantasies that simply pass the time.
~ Karl Albrecht
A lot of time, the music reflects reality, which reflects music.
~ Lecrae
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.
~ Lord Byron
I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.
~ Marcel Proust