Quotes About Reality

There is truth. There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth.

One day, young "Dr." Welch, decked out in his fancy suit, got into his new convertible. He proceeded to put the top down and was promptly squirted with dark, grungy oil that ruined both his suit and the paint job on his beloved car. "There I was, thinking I was larger than life, and smack came the reminder that brought me back to reality. It was a great lesson.

Cognitive psychologist Maryanne Garry finds that as people tell you how an event might have happened, it starts to feel real to them. Children are especially vulnerable to this suggestion.

Everyone has expectations. They are the soul of the human condition, for they reflect the human ability to anticipate the future, to dream, and to hope. The complementary human ability is to bring those expectations into resolution with reality, what folks used to call maturity.

Sometimes things are neither this nor that, neither good nor bad. Sometimes they just are what they are.

in real life, monsters weren't always vanquished, and heroes didn't always win.

Ah, yes, my—partners." "Misters Wickham and Clyde?" Eugene Harley Esq. cleared his throat. "They don't exist—or rather, not as human beings." "I beg your pardon?" "Those are the names of my cats.

This book is an invention, an act of the imagination, and in no way should be mistaken for reality, the place where much good invention originates.

Blue skies can be misleading.

Nothing is ever as it seems. We hide our reality from the outside world and from each other. We float along on process, Anthony and I—What will we have for dinner, did you call your mother, what time do you think you'll be home? Phone calls and kisses and thank-you notes. You can lose a whole life on that.

A crying baby is the best form of birth control.

I went to the shoemaker to collect his wastepaper. One of them asked me if my book was communistic. I replied that it was realistic. He cautioned me that it was not wise to write of reality.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

Not only is there no way to make everyone happy, it's nearly impossible to make anyone happy. And anyway, most people only think they want to be happy. Including me. There's something wildly freeing about knowing that.

Houses are real, deep, emotional things.

Nothing is certain, but if nothing is certain, how can we be certain that nothing is certain?

Often, if you want to write about women in history," the novelist Hilary Mantel has said, "you have to distort history to do it, or substitute fantasy for facts; you have to pretend that individual women were more important than they were or that we know more about them than we do."8 But when it comes to Wilder, we don't have to pretend.

I think we receive a great deal what we expect in this world. -Laura Ingalls Wilder

Life isn't always ideal, not for most people.

Just eat it and shit it and be done with it and don't feel special cuz you eat that shit with someone because in the end we all shit alone!

She looks out the window at Reno, which looks like Vegas and yet also looks nothing like Vegas. It's lesser, smaller, worse.

They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

Until tonight , she thought death was for grandparents and goldfish.

you wasted my time. And you don't want me to be mad. You think the world works like that?