Quotes About Reality

Muse, time has taught me that all metaphysical systems, even historical facts given as truths, are hardly that, so I amuse myself with more agreeable lies; I no longer read anything but novels.

The plastic surgeon's knife slashes at time, which may seem to retreat, but then keeps on coming.

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

Don't try to be consistent; it is a waste of time. Just try to update your truth with the real truth!

The whole dream of having your own place is great, but the reality is having to cook and clean yourself and do the washing and make sure there's milk in the fridge. But you have to grow up some time.

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

For the first time ever, we have confronted in reality the sinister power of uncontrolled nuclear energy.

I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, "That isn't who I really am.

One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you're meant to be with someone, that doesn't necessarily mean you get to be with them.

London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

It's a reality here. We're a team that at this time of the season, with teams trying to get to the playoffs, it's going to be difficult to win.

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Time is a person-made concept.

Time is fluid here', said the Demon.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

Man - a figment of God's imagination.

Nothing exists; all is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you!

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.