Quotes About Reality

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

Truths ... are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract

Truth exists, only lies have to be invented.

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

It is hard to tell truth, and hard not to.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.

Maybe the social value of truth is as a destination - so long as we do not assume we have arrived there.

I care what is actually true, even more than what I hope is true.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.

The truth often sounds paradoxical.

I try to use fiction in order to reduce the potentiality of something being true. We produce our own memories so I'm not sure of truth.

Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

Whenever someone tries to deny the truth, ultimately, reality betrays him.

It's deeply humbling to realize that there is no such thing as a society with a purchase on truth.

Depiction can override truth the same way that memory can override experience.

Cinema verité is not the film of truth, but the truth of film.

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.