Quotes About Reality

That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.

So I need the story, Jenna. I need the truth. Right, like the two are the same thing.

Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.

Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there's a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don't like it very much.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

We live at a time when emotions and feelings count more than truth, and there is a vast ignorance of science

Life is very nice, but it has no shape. The object of art is actually to give it some and to do it by every artifice possible-truer than the truth.

The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth. [Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?

As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?

It's easier to remember your lies if they're close to the truth.

The truth is, what I learned this year is that life is hard...Good people die for no reason. Little kids get sick. The people that are supposed to love you end up leaving.

Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.

I found plain truth very interesting.

Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never the actual literal truth of an event.