Quotes About Reality

I don't see the point of truth anymore, it causes just as much heartbreak as lying.

I love the truth. It's the facts I'm not a fan of.

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

No point in ignoring the truth. Doesn't make it worse to have it said out loud.

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

Truth and facts have to trump partisanship. There has to be something that's true regardless of what your angle is on it.

The truth of history crowds out the truth of fiction - as if one were obliged to choose between them.

Whatever the truth is, I don't see how it will help me get food on the table.

You can create many lies from Truth, but you cannot create any truths from lies.

There is at least one truth to every myth, and it takes one truth to create a lie. Lies can be formed from Truth; however, Truth cannot be formed from lies.

Satisfied is no test of truth. Actuality is steadily far from idiosyncratic secure.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.

It was so useful to lie with the truth.

What was once obvious to them was no longer quite as obvious. Why was it that humans lost sight of truth so quickly?

there are elements of truth in all great fiction

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.

The genuine essence of truth never dies.

And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.

I think for me the trick is not to aim to impress or to even try to make people laugh but instead to tell the truth.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

You can't deny reality just because you can't explain it.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.