Quotes About Reality

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

I am all that there is of the most real.

This is no time for refusing to look facts in the face.

fiction is founded on truth... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them.

That's the curious part about speaking the truth. No one does believe it.

The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don't you?" "Of course I believe in the truth," said Rhoda, staring. "Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven't thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one's illusions." "I'd rather have it all the same." said Rhoda. "So would I. But I don't know that we're wise.

When the fact doesn't meet the theory then let go the theory.

Truth is seldom romantic.

You want beauty," said Hercule Poirot. "Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth I want. Always truth.

the real tragedy of life was that you got what you wanted...

people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.

Because this is just what a nightmare is. Walking about among people you know, looking in their faces- and suddenly the faces change- and it's not someone you know any longer- it's a stranger- a cruel stranger.

I know that in books it is always the most unlikely person. But I never find that rule applies in real life. There it is so often the obvious that is true.

She'd never stopped for a moment wanting me to be different but her wishes were never going to come true.

The truth is, that one doesn't really know anything about anybody. Not even the people who are nearest to you...' 'Isn't that going a little too far--exaggerating too much?' 'I don't think it is. When you think of people, it is in the image you have made of them for yourself.

It takes more than a printed notice to keep you from reality. . . . We've only one life to live.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.

Lo imposible no puede haber sucedido; por tanto, lo imposible tiene que ser posible, a pesar de las apariencias.

She couldn't let the past go and she could never see the future as it really was, only as she imagined it to be.

The trouble with her is that either she thinks that at last she's got to that spot or place or that moment in her life where everything's like a fairy tale come true, that nothing can go wrong, that she'll never be unhappy again; or else she's down in the dumps, a woman whose life is ruined, who's never known love and happiness and who never will again.

What a newspaper prints is news – but not always truth!

É il cervello, le piccole cellule grigie» si batté una mano sulla fronte, «la cosa su cui bisogna basarsi. I sensi inducono in errore. Bisogna cercare la verità dal di dentro, non dal di fuori.»