Quotes About Reality

I watch him up on the screen as I hold his hand in the audience, and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it? And then I'm thinking - is it so impossible to imagine or believe? - that a man and a woman can find happiness together for a little while, which, after all, is all that we have. All anyone has. I think it can happen.

Tout à coup, Florentine entra dans la réalité. La vague d'ivresses l'abandonnait. Elle la rejetait durement.

Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.

Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

Ask two people to tell you anything, you'll get two versions. Even easy things like directions, let alone important or semi-controversial topics like why a fight started or what a person was generally like. If you don't know something for yourself, you just can't be sure.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

I love that world more, I think, because it is perfectible. Because I have perfected it. The actual world is the random garbage fire it always is. There's not a goddamn thing I can do about the actual world's code.

He knows she isn't perfect. She knows he definitely isn't perfect. They know there's no such thing as perfect.

How long does a dream have to last before it's just life?

And this is the truth of any game - it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

Oh yes, it's very tragic. Why does everyone always like love stories? What about absence-of-love stories? Aren't they much more common?

It had not been a lonely childhood, though many of her intimates had been somewhat less than real.

How could a person still be as young as he objectively knew himself to be and have had so much time pass?

this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played.

He had never seen anything die before and so, he could not be certain that she was dying. And yet, somewhere deep inside himself, he felt a recognition and then a reckoning: this was death, and he would die, and his mother would die, and everyone you ever met and ever loved would die, and maybe it would happen when you or they were old, but maybe not. To know this was unbearable: it was a fact too large for a nine-year-old avatar to contain.

In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

How many times can you look at something and know that everyone around you is seeing the same thing or at the very least that their brains and eyes are responding to the same phenomenon? How much proof do you ever have that we're all in the same world?

Life was expensive anywhere you were.

Sometimes, this good old world does not much care what you believe.

A good game, like Ichigo, was hard, but fair. The "unfair game" was life itself.

The game character, like the self, is contextual.

And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It's the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.

His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.