Quotes About Reality

The world, Lula was thinking, is oozing, teeming, crawling with miracles. And we live in the opaque plastic bubble of television and booze.

Open, the eyes of the dead are a travesty, a parody, make a fool of the deceased. Open, the eyes of the dead perform that most indecent subtraction, show the person without his life.

It's Big Brother with werewolves. Live coverage for a month, leading up to a group kill on full moon.

Whatever doesn't kill them, makes them make reality TV shows...

The seriousness of madmen is one of the most exhausting realities.

The lies you tell yourself. The necessary lies.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

It would be nice if education was free to everyone who wanted it, but that's not the world we live in.

There's a big difference between not knowing the truth and not liking it.

Virtually everything we told you about the healthcare bill now has proven to be true, and nearly everything they told you was a lie.

Los hombres a veces se estrellan con la verdad, pero la mayoría se recomponen y retiran apresuradamente como si nada hubiera pasado».

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

The rest, but a small part, is fiction, part of the mosaic of storytelling that a writer must employ to bring life to his tale. But as to which part is truth and which small part is fiction, I will leave that for you to decide.

I+V=R (Imagination mixed with Vividness becomes Reality.) The speaker pointed out that the mind thinks in pictures, not in words. And as we vividly picture in our mind what we desire, it will become a reality.

All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.

The right woman is the one you can live with, not the one in your head.

Now that she had actually seen and accepted reality, and reality brought such a healing calm.

The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories—in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

On the road, I learned that the media are not reality; reality is reality.

Laughter is the only free emotion - the only one that can't be compelled. We can be made to fear. We can even be made to believe we're in love because, if we're kept dependent and isolated for long enough, we bond in order to survive. But laughter explodes like an aha! It comes when the punch line changes everything that has gone before, when two opposites collide and make a third and when we suddenly see a new reality...laughter is an orgasm of the mind.

I remember Spider Woman from the first page of Leslie's novel Ceremony. She is the Thought Woman who names things and so brings them into being. Until then, I had imagined myself alone in believing that spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.

The media are not reality; reality is reality.