Quotes About Reality

At least it's real. Everything here is fake, fake, fake.' She tugs on the straps of her backpack and I'm so relieved that I'm an adult. What a nightmare it is to be a teenager, to think there's a place where everyone isn't fake, fake, fake.

There really is no such thing as the truth but there is such thing as happiness,

The internet has eliminated so much wonder and romance.

I hate that you'll wake up tomorrow and realize that RIP Melanda was right all along, that men always let you down, that they bail on you because men do fucking suck. But so does Love, Mary Kay. So does love.

For a long time, when it's working, the drink feels like a path to a kind of self-enlightenment, something that turns us into the person we wish to be, or the person we think we are. In some ways the dynamic is simple: alcohol makes everything better, until it makes everything worse.

J-"Don't tell me you don't feel a true connection to the characters in your favorite books". A-"That is true, Pen. Just because they aren't real people doesn't make characters less...real".

Yazd?klar?m? biri okuyacak olursa, belki de: "Söylediklerinin hepsi yalan," diyecek. Ama bu sefalet öylesine gerçek ki...

Why are you so sad? You read too much poetry. And you believe the wrong things about poetry. Poetry doesn't come from outer space. Poetry doesn't descend from heaven. Give life a chance. Life is stronger than the interpretation of life.

She thought the world was a good idea that had failed.

The truth is the truth whether you serve it up plain or top it with chocolate frosting. It's still the truth." "So

The endless, unrelieved suffering of so many who are unable to deliver themselves is a reality we can no longer ignore.

There is a very pervasive web of falsehoods that the dreamer must wake from in order to start on her path. These are the lies of the mad world, the system of delusion maintained by human drama and ignorance.

After all, deprivation was what he believed was there, but it was the ever-present, self-confirming mechanism of fulfillment that fulfilled his perception of deprivation! Once the hungry ghost perceives that fulfillment is more real than deprivation, he can start to perceive fulfillment everywhere because if we perceive something somewhere, we will eventually perceive it everywhere. That's the quirk of consciousness.

Because as long as the hungry ghost believes that only the deprivation he already perceives is real, he will continue to perceive only deprivation. That's the vicious circle.

If you want to know who you unconsciously believe you are, just take a look at your life, your surroundings, your relationship. Your life mirrors those deep beliefs.

Forest Gump had it wrong. Life is not a box of chocolate; it's a kaleidoscope. In the flip of a wrist, realities are shredded and the world takes on a totally new shape.

Loving the unattainable was safe. That love could never be tested by day-to-day reality.

I write that one sentence really tiny, like if she doesn't look hard enough she might not see it, like if I write it full size then it might be full-size true. And it's hard to imagine that full-size thing truly happening to me.

This is happening; this is not fiction. And the thing about life? It doesn't have texture at all. Go ahead, feel the space around you. Do it now. See? It's nothing but air.

This is how it works, she thought. When the world becomes something new, it seems always to have been that way.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

That's the way it works in movies. Something happens that has an impact on someone's life, and based on that impact, his life shifts course. Well, that's not how it happens in life. Something has an impact on you, and then your life stays the same, and you think, 'Well, what about the impact?' You have epiphanies all the time. They just don't have any effect.

Good anecdote--bad reality.