Quotes About Reality

luxury means little when there's no real freedom in the world

I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters.

It has been said ... that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not -- it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, one more fib won't hurt. But I am infuriated by the growing notion, posited in some touchy-feely quarters, that all women are, or can be, beautiful.

What sort of sap doesn't know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway?

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.

He doesn't believe in what is meant to be. He only believes in what is. We can know a river, but we can't know all the drops in it, every journey they could have taken instead of this one.

Julie Czerneda's inner editor says, 'One day her expectations will meet reality and actually get along.

Books had always been a comfort to me, an escape from reality when reality got to be too real.

They say the truth hurts, but the only thing the truth hurts, are illusions.

Can I just say that dying sucks? All that bullshit about seeing the light and having this inner peace, blah, blah, blah. It's crap.

It turns out, after a lot of exploration, that I'm not really a princess. A swell gal, sure, but not a princess.

Chaos is the true state of the universe anyway." "My universe was fairly orderly before all this." "It was only an illusion.

Or maybe, it's just gone. Sometimes things disappear and there's no getting them back. That's just how it is.

She remembers that everything she remembers is not necessarily true.

She remembers that today is Sunday, which six days out of seven is not true.

You're like a tour guide for reality.

You said I was all you'd ever need Love is blind and little did I know That you were just another dead-end road Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams

reality was bleak and often unbearable, their puny lives a meaningless trudge toward the blank vault of death.

We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.d

Just because a frog says he's a prince doesn't mean you should kiss him. For all you know he's one of the arrogant, worthless princes who might better serve society as a pair of buttered legs on someone's plate.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist. Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them. I don't want to go on playing in a world where everyone cheats. Where everyone cheats - not only men and women, but sometimes even God.

Nature is only another chimera.