Quotes About Reality

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…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

First get the facts, you can distort them later

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth

Homely truth is unpalatable.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

I have replaced his tin life with a silver-gilt fiction

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.

The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We must take things as we find them in this world.

Life itself is only a vision, a dream. 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!

Satan was accustomed to say that our race lived a life of continuous and uninterrupted self-deception. It duped itself from cradle to grave with shams and delusions which it mistook for realities, and this made its entire life a sham. Of the score of fine qualities which it imagined it had and was vain of, it really possessed hardly one. It regarded itself as gold, and was only brass.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.

The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

it is easier to manufacture seven facts than one emotion. 

The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.

These descriptions do really state the truth- as nearly as the limitations of language will allow. But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.