Quotes About Reality

Jake, we haven't tried for awhile. Tried what? Just to walk out. No. Why haven't we? Because we're in a place where a horse shits rainbows. Right.

A secret face only the dreamers can see. Awake, you can't see the truths beneath the surface.

And what if orphans really were called orchids? And if the sky was called the ground. And if a tree was called a daffodil. Would it make any difference to the actual nature of things? Or their mystery?

When it comes down to it, Matthew was just another disillusioned idealist, an over-reactive Hamlet type--couldn't take it that the world was real.

Words were like an invisible skin, enwrapping the world and giving it reality. Yet you could not say the world would not be there, would not be real if you took away the words. At best it seemed that things might bless the words that distinguished them, and that words might bless everything.

Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.

Some things, some places perhaps take up their truer existence in the mind.

A complete fiction! Yet something that was clearly and completely fiction could also contain—this was the nub and the mystery of the matter—truth.

Can a mirror keep a print? Can you look into a mirror and see someone else? Can you step through a mirror and be someone else?

This world which we like to believe is sane and real is, in truth, absurd and fantastic.

Le parole erano come una pelle invisibile, che avvolgeva il mondo rendendolo reale.

per ogni protagonista comparso per una volta sul cosiddetto palcoscenico della storia, sono stati migliaia, milioni coloro che non sono mai entrati nel teatro, che non hanno mai saputo che lo spettacolo si stava svolgendo, che hanno continuato l'ingrato lavoro di far fronte alla realtà.

Sometimes you wonder, in an interconnected universe, who's dreaming who?

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or vice versa.

We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens.

Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.

Look at us! Are we not proof that there is no good, no evil, no truth, no reason? Are we not proof that the universe is a drooling idiot with no fashion sense - Mr Nobody on the fundamental philosophy of the Brotherhood of DADA

Animal Man: 'Listen, just tell me one thing: am I REAL or what?' Grant Morrison: 'Of COURSE you're real! We wouldn't be here talking if you weren't real. 'You existed long before I wrote about you and, if you're lucky, you'll still be young when I'm old or dead. 'You're more real than I am.

People look at us and see the poor and the mad, but they're looking at us through the bars of their cages. There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always.

We live in the stories we tell ourselves.

The interior of our skulls contain a portal to infinity...of course it's happening in your head but why on earth should that mean it's not real?

But where in all of this description is the essential chair? Have we yet come even close to a full description of it? Did we even mention that several hundred years ago, it wasn't a chair but a tree? Where is it now? Here? Or in memory. We cannot even fully describe a chair and yet we say I am. I am.... Understand. There is no I am. Nothing is . Try to describe all that you are. Simultaneously discern the logical flaw in what I've just said. Now! Feel the white flame.

Todo cuanto te ha ocurrido es real, incluso tus sueños. Ellos sobre todo

There's only one joke worth laughing at and it's the joke of existence.