Quotes About Reality

No, that's journalism. The truth is whatever you can't escape.

The truth isn't a thing of fact or reason. It is simply what everyone agrees on.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

Poetry is when words are robbed of their attributed truth.

Everything which one invents is true, be sure of it.

Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.

The question is, "Are you spiritual or are you not?" The truth is you are. The reality is you don't believe it

Life is a lie if you do not find the eternal truth.

the true and the plausible are rarely the same.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

How sweet it would be to treat men and things, for an hour, for just what they are!

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard.

What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?

There is none who does not lie hourly in the respect he pays to false appearance.

If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends!

If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now you get the picture. Truth burns doesn't it?

Give us that calm certainty of truth, that nearness to Thee, that conviction of the reality of the life to come, which we shall need to bear us through the troubles of this.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.

You thought I was writing The Truth? Honey, I don't even know what The Truth means.

That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane