Quotes About Reality

If your faith in reality is based on the belief that time moves in one direction only, the foundation of your faith will be shattered by the experience of the future.

Mama says I spend too much time in little fantasy worlds and not enough in this one.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

If I shut my eyes, I believed, I would disappear. To make it through, I had to be present the whole time.

It's funny when people don't know you and they meet you for the first time and think you're so great. When fans know you for more than three or four times the magic is gone.

I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.

When I began writing, it was a cosmic thing: Inspiration! Wham! Short spurts of time when I felt out of touch with reality, temporarily insane and the result: a song!

One of the surprises of being a grown-up is embracing the fact that you see your friends when you are both available. It's not like you hang out all the time.... It's just the reality.

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

The wild stuff is all so overrated. Drinking, you don't feel good all the time. There's a lot of down, a lot of misery.

I couldn't picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.

The best liars are those who tell the truth most of the time.

Our perception of time is indeed our reality.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition. Time itself, and all the acts and events that fill time are the definition, and it must be lived.

With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

All experiences exist in one time frame.

I wanna go to the clubs and actually have a good time too, but at the same time, when the party's over, I have to go back to the real world and try to figure out who I am.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.