Quotes About Reality

Does tension exist between our perfect longings and the imperfect world?

Stan's well-meaning but misguided loyalty to "sorting things out," that is, to determining the one right reality about it (which was, of course, his), deprived them both of moments like the one they are having now in my office: moments of repair.

Courtship? Had I said courtship ? What did I think, that this was Jane freakin' Eyre?

Be careful not to drown in a mirage.

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

The air of reality is too thick for me I choke on it I must live on shadows Even my poetry is vicarious.

Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life's path and most can tread it lightly.

Each season of adventure reality television gets more and more challenging. I'm waiting for them to come out with a Survivor: Phoenix in July edition.

When what you see in your imagination is bigger than what you see in your reality, you will begin to attract the ideas, opportunities, resources, faith and relationships necessary to pursue those dreams.

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely.

I'm against people reading statements. When you read a statement, I automatically take it as though you can't talk, and it's not real.

Deception is mostly a game we play with ourselves.

We all lie to serve a purpose, Eric. By omission or commission, we all know when to lie. Parents lie to children about reality all the time, a most heinous and culpable offense since it does not involve the way reality is perceived. But, then as now, lying can be seen as a sign of extreme care. It all has to do with the motive and ethic behind the lie, doesn't it?

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I hope you meet somebody and get married and then they fucking disappoint you and you have to go through a divorce, and then maybe you'll get it.

Everything that ever happened is just stories now, Earl. But it was all very real to people while it was happening. Wasn't it?

Malus: 'You look like a person with doubts.' Zoe: 'I wonder sometimes if any of this is real - or is it just a business, selling hope to people who can't afford it?' Malus: 'Clever people have been asking that question since the iron age, Zoe. The answer remains the same.' Zoe: 'And... ?' Malus: 'Business is good.' (A dialogue regarding the Church between a demon and a human.)

Empirical reality becomes nature when we view it with respect to its universal characteristics; it becomes history when we view it as particular and individual.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

In advanced economies, the average citizen is often resistant to the concept of alternative worlds because they value the in-person relationships, locations, and experiences already available to them, labeled as "reality privilege" by some observers.