Quotes About Reality

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.

We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, we think. And all the time it is in the soil, right beneath our feet.

I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.

I would watch 'Wizard of Oz,' like every day, when I was two. I had a hard time understanding that I couldn't go into the film, because it felt so real to me.

Time is the mother and mugger of us all.

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

Don't live online, live in real time. I'm just astonished how many people live online.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

You spend very little time in the present moment. Reality exists only in the present moment. Therefore you spend very little time in reality.

I know that I may never be a star. This could all just go away at any time. I know that just because I have a record out doesn't mean I'm going to make it

Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.

We all fall in love with the idea of a person, and then as time goes on we either accommodate ourselves to the real person or we don't.

Maybe hallucinations are just another reality that we don't see most of the time

Sometimes love worked out, but more often it failed

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're the same. It's a thimble. It's in the book.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.