Quotes About Reality

Refusal to accept reality does not change reality. My girlfriend broke up with me. I said, "I can't imagine you leaving me." She said, "Well, let me help. You stay here. I'm going to turn around. Then I'm going to start walking. To you, it'll seem like I'm getting smaller."

Immediate work, even poor, is worth more than dreams.

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal.

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.

In spite of all its materialist efforts, production remains a utopia. We can wear ourselves out in materializing things, in rendering them visible, but we will never cancel the secret.

For it is with the same imperialism that present-day simulators try to make the real, all the real, coincide with their simulation models.

The shores run together, the waters are parallel. The waters run together, the shores are parallel. A single leaf rustles, the others are silent. Who knows how this dream ends.

Philosophy has never been anything but a disavowal of the reality principle.

The most difficult thing is to renounce the truth and the possibility of verification, to remain as long as possible on the enigmatic, ambivalent, and reversible side of thought.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have. One implies a presence, the other an absence.

Globalization is the last failed hope that, somewhere, there still exists a land where one can escape and find happiness.

most of life occurs in the hollows between expectation and reality.

Why live life from dream to dream? And dread the day when dreaming ends.

I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books.

Sometimes fantasies are better than life.

Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Reality doesn't have to be plausible. Reality can be as preposterous as it pleases.

From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.

Reality can be elastic, and I want to see how elastic it can be, you know?

I don't believe there's any such thing as objective reality. It's only reality as we experience it.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it.