Quotes About Reality

It was real for me and that's all that matters.

That's what I mean by radical truth. I mean accepting reality.

I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.

There is no truth in photography. There is no truth about anyone's person.

Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.

VERISIMILITUDE (the appearance or semblance of truth)

There's an old saying about truth setting you free. Don't buy it. Sometimes the truth slams the cell door shut and throws a thousand bolts.

Read between the lines, folks, 'cause I'm here to tell you you're not getting the straight story. Ever. You're getting variations of the truth, if you're lucky.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

After all, the commonplaces are the great poetic truths.

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

It really is a shame that the truth is perceived as an extreme position.

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.

If you strive to find your Self by using your mind, you will strive and strive in vain, because the mind cannot give you the Truth. You are that Self. All else is illusion of the mind's creation.

One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it.

Truth never perishes.

How easily the truth is lost, and how persistent lies are.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I ain't interested in the truth. I'm interested in the way things should be.

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

We think everyone but us need the unadulterated truth.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.