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Quotes About Reality

Nothing is truer in a sense than a funeral oration: It tells precisely what the dead man should have been.
~ Louis Gustave Vapereau
Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.
~ Lyman Abbott
I hear the headlines on the radio, see them on TV and read them in the paper. When I hear from the men out there, I sometimes don't believe they are talking about the same situation.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
~ Malcolm McDowell
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.
~ Marcus Aurelius
... if a man really and truly believed that black was white, you might advise him to see an oculist, but you mustn't call him a liar.
~ Margaret Deland
Perfect young men don't get murdered, they don't even get born.
~ Margaret Millar
I'd rather meet Spider-man than some creator that would put me in real awe!
~ Marko Djurdjevic
Welcome to Suckersville, man.
~ Matt Groening
Some man's dreams can bring only nightmares to the world!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
As long as death exists, men will continue to exist only as a shadow, not a real thing!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Summit of the well is the bottom of the ground! Man who has climbed up from the very low thinks that he did climb up to the very top!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
~ Michael Scott
Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
By itself photography cannot deal with the unseen, the remote, the internal, the abstract, it does not speak of Man, only of a man ; not of Tree, only a tree.
~ Neil Postman
I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?
~ Neil Young
He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Because Man is God, and God is Man, the world is nothing but the world of Man - or Woman.
~ Paul Virilio
In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
~ Oscar Wilde