Quotes About Reality

I think people have turned terrorists into these larger-than-life devils and so are unable to write about them in the obvious way, which is as human, petty, bumbling.

An environment is precisely something one is unable to point to yet is strangely there nonetheless.

If life's not funny, then it's just true - and that would be unacceptable.

I really believed it was important to explain to our young audience that expectations based on people who are trying to sell them things are unattainable.

My dream was never to become this unattainable star.

I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.

Flawless' is an unattainable thing.

If we're reading a first-person account, we know that each and every one of us, myself included, have a great desire to be seen in a certain way, or to be perceived in a certain way. It's unavoidable.

We live within this reality we create, and we're quite unaware of how we create the reality.

We're part of creating this world in which we live, but we're unaware of how we do that or even that we do that.

I'm not immortal. I'm not unbeatable.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

The influence of social media is unbelievable. It's sad to see - it's a fake life that some people live.

There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.

I'm always amused when people point out that Benjamin's naivety about the publishing process is just so unbelievable in Starborn #1 since, of course, no aspiring writer in reality could ever be so naive.

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.

I felt unbelievably lucky to have the success I did with 'Goon Squad,' and I also felt the pressure of how fleeting that success can be.

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

In a lot of ways, New York isn't the city I moved to back in 1979. I'm old enough to separate my nostalgia for those days from the reality of how dangerous and uncertain they could be.

A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.