Quotes About Reality

Life is hard, so what? It's hard for everyone, isn't it? Anyone who says it's easy is a liar.

How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

She told me that to seek the truth is not necessarily to go on a mission all guns blazing in order to reveal a lie, neither is it to be particularly ground-breaking – it is simply to get to the heart of what is real.

Estaba harta de limitarse a existir; quería vivir. Pero ¿qué sentido tenía vivir cuando no se sentía viva?[...] Finalmente prefirió no despertar de sus sueños; éstos eran lo único que le parecía real

The Duchess (of Kent) was a duck who had hatched a swan.

That "relationship" was a perfect example of Callie convincing herself of something that didn't really exist. She'd believed in unicorns until she was eleven, despite all evidence to the contrary, simply because she'd wanted to.

Lies are not rooted in the mind in the way truth is.

It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

Memory plays tricks in the night, in the dark. We imagine things not how they are, but how we want them to be.

In nature, a dog's life is very simple. Because dog's realities are formed primarily by the senses, they live moment by moment, and everything is focused on what they need to survive [...] Dogs do not worry about the future or dwell on the past. They exist in the moment, which can be something very difficult for humans to understand, especially with the stresses of modern life.

There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.

At that point I was just a little too conscious to hold on to it and I woke up with that awful empty feeling you get when you realize the person who can make you happier than anything is a fucking dream.

Cerca di ricordare il momento in cui tutte le stupide innocenti cose che hai pensato della vita e dell'amore, tutte le cose che pensavi importassero, tutte le cose che pensavi fossero vere... cerca di ricordare quando si sono trasformate in bugie. -Kyle

I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality, as if the play yard, with its black asphalt floor and its white base lines, were my entire world now, as if all the previous years of my life had led me somehow to this one ball game, and all the future years of my life would depend upon its outcome. I stood there for a moment, holding the glasses in my hand and feeling frightened. Then I took a deep breath, and the feeling passed. It's only a ball game, I told myself. What's a ball game?

It's not a pretty world, Papa." "I've noticed," my father said softly.

And too intense a longing, everyone knows, can lead to poor decisions, rash actions, hopes that become outsized and in turn deform reality

Everyone thinks I'm crazy, you know, because I can't tell them the truth; which is, that I'm driven crazy by all these thoughts, all these heads.

That is what we are. Death.

It was hard to have a good crisis when real life kept asking to be lived.

My brother was an asshole, and Crystal was a whore. These were facts I had to deal with.

There is plenty of justice on television, but not so much in the real world. Maybe that's why so many of us like television so much.

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Incontrovertible truth.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring