Quotes About Reality

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

When a politician, on a subject implicating science says, 'the debate is over', you may be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he is losing it.

Good actors, including political actors, do not deal in unrealities. Rather, they create realities that matter – perceptions, aspirations, allegiances.

The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I can look or pass.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

Truth exists, only lies are invented.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Truth exists, only falsehood has to be invented.

Reality can only be illuminated by a ray of poetry. Everything is sleep around us.

He distrusted ideas, as they were always too rigid to reflect reality, which, as he knew from experience, was very fluid.

If I try to define my state as accurately as possible, I'd say that I possessed a warped lucidity. Reality existed around me, and I was in contact with it. I was aware of my actions.

Most of us are confused about what is real.

I never really believed in Satan, or that there was pure evil in the world, until I came here.

No one will believe a crime that big. People will say, "Impossible, they could not kill that many, torture that many, be so cruel." People will say that there are limits, that human beings stop at some point. But they didn't stop.

But life here is not the end. Reality is more than we think it to be. There is another and greater reality that envelops this earthly one. Earth is not outside heaven, as the philosopher Peter Kreeft wrote; it is heaven's workshop, heaven's womb.

The name of a thing is not the thing.

Lynet scowled. "I'm just so tired of young knights wearing their father's armor and dreaming romantic dreams riding up to their death.

Things are more like they are now than they have ever been.

Spirituality not rooted in the reality of life's material needs rarely effects a meaningful gain.

Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.

Reality and 'what should be' are two brothers who live very far apart.

Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food on the table, making sure everybody's socks match, the soccer gear is ready. I admire idealists, but they're usually enabled by someone who holds the tether on their balloon, who pays the bills and sweeps up after them.

You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free diets. You are the superstitious ones. You convince yourself you can cheat death, and you are absolutely offended when you learn that you can't. You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee.

There's a word a friend of mine coined for that feeble gesture we make as if we're going to hold the door, when in reality we've got no intention of it. He calls it "to elefain.