Quotes About Reality

The ones who are fearful all the time, who need to medicate to function? It is because they understand the reality, how thin the line is. It isn't that they can't accept the truth—it's that they can't block it.

It's been a long day." "It's only nine in the morning." Myron said, "For what breeds time but two hands on a clock?

It was easy to trust your own eyes, wasn't it? We all did. We weren't crazy. The other guy was. That was part of the human condition. We understand our own perspective too well. So

On the news, the neighbors are always like, 'Gee, I didn't know that nice man was chopping up little kids—he always seemed so polite.' But you go back, you ask their schoolteachers, you ask their childhood friends, they almost always tell a different story. They're never surprised.

It comforts us to think that we have control when we don't.

If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.

But the truth is, we all take facts and compute them through our own experiences.

Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is – and that reality is so horrible they lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible they lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

They all hunger for the details not solely because they are ghoulish—that's part of it, no question—but more because they need to know that it can't possibly happen to them.

There was such a feeling of innocence here, of make-believe, of youth, of startling passion. But that was the beauty of such a university: students debating over life-and-death issues in an environment as insulated as Disney World. Reality had nothing to do with the equation. And that was okay. In fact, that was how it should be.

The ugliest truth is better than the prettiest lie.

But you were there, correct? Perhaps whoever was on the other side of your online communications –and we really don't know who that was at this point –but perhaps that person had seen your news' –Flair said it as though the word 'news' itself tasted bad in his mouth –'program and decided to play along so he could meet a luscious thirty-six-year-old TV star. Isn't that possible?

Every house on every street is really just a family facade. We look at it and think we know what's going on inside, but we never really have any idea.

Exteriors, you learn, are temporal and illusionary and thus meaningless.

Life was random, choosing to coddle some and destroy others without plan or justification. That was just how things worked. Accept it and move on.

Of all liars, the smoothest and most convincing is memory

Solange das, was jemand glaubt, ihn nicht ins Irrenhaus oder ins Gefängnis bringt, gibt es keinen Grund, warum es weniger akzeptabel sein sollte als das, was wir, äh, normalen Leute als Realität betrachten.

Most of us think we're more important than we really are, Charlie. The universe isn't watching. It mostly, for the most part, doesn't care.

I look upon those who assure me they had a 'happy childhood' as either pathological liars, or pariahs.

When I leave here, will this shop vanish the way they do in the stories?" "I'm afraid so, yes." "Why do they always do that?" The old man sighed. "You know, you're the first one who ever asked me that." But

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

Shakespeare's exquisite imagining belies our total inability to live in the present moment.

To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory pipe dreams is right also.