Quotes About Reality

We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth - the truth we want to exist.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

Not recognizing natural mind is simply an example of the mind's unlimited capacity to create whatever it wants.

Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything.

When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

This is reality. If [the American officials] want to believe, that's good, that will help them understand the region and be more successful in their policies.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.

Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it

Never face reality unless your reality is just the way you want it to be.

Women want to see the truth. They don't want to see some perfect girl.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.

I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.