Quotes About Reality

In order to pin down reality as realilty, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the maintenance of this chain which produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

If this was a dream, then the world I'm living in itself must all be a dream.

Reality was one step out of line, a cardigan with the buttons done up wrong.

The Earth slowly keeps on turning. But beyond any of those details of the real, there are dreams. And everyone's living in them.

The world [...] an endless battle of contrasting memories.

I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can't work out what's real and what isn't... That kind of feeling. Do you have any idea what I'm saying?

Even if you don't acknowledge it, people die, and guys sleep with girls. That's just how it is.

It's a waste of time to think about things you can't know, and things you can't confirm even if you know them.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

I'll bet they think they can leave you alone because you've really got it together. But maybe sometimes you don't really have it together.

The scene seemed somehow divorced from reality, although reality, he knew, could at times be terribly unreal.

To understand something and to put that something into a form that you can see with your own eyes are two completely different things. If you could manage to do both equally well, living would be a lot simpler (from Honey Pie)

In real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

Maybe the world was like a revolving door, it occurred to him as his consciousness was fading away. And which section you ended up in was just a matter of where your foot happened to fall...And there was no logical continuity from one section to another. And it was because of this lack of logical continuity that choices really didn't mean very much.

I was alive in the past, and I'm alive now, sitting here talking to you. But what you see here isn't really me. This is just a shadow of who I was. You are really living. But I'm not. Even these words I'm saying right now sound empty, like an echo.

Tomorrow is tomorrow. Today is all we have right now.

Most people believe not so much in truth as in things they wish were the truth. Their eyes may be wide open, but they don't see a thing. Tricking them is as easy as twisting a baby's arm.

The pain I imagine is worse than the actual pain.

There are symbolic dreams-dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities-realities that symbolize a dream

Principles and logic didn't give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.

No matter what we said, people would believe what they wanted to believe. The more we struggled, the more vulnerable we'd be.

The people who build high, strong fences are the ones who survive the best. You deny that reality only at the risk of being driven into the wilderness yourself...

Not that running away's going to solve everything. I don't want to rain on your parade or anything, but I wouldn't count on escaping this place if I were you. No matter how far you run. Distance might not solve anything.

You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination. But you can't suppress dreams.