Quotes About Reality

What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

But she wasn't in love, though she had been ready to be. Love sank down gently from where it had been swollen in expectation -- she imagined a red balloon deflating to a foolish remnant. (In the cave, 171)

But now everything was lost: all the scattered effect of a real person, complicated beyond counting. (Post production, 197)

I'd lived all along as if I was acting out some turbulent drama; then I woke up one day and found I'd stopped believing in the play

Sheila thought that passion was a story people dreamed up to save themselves from boredom

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable us to remain in the world of fantasy and escape from the people we rub shoulders with in the street. Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously.

The warrior knows that the world is not what it appears to be, and therefore does not make the mistake of assuming anything to be merely a logical necessity.

The world is what you have chosen to believe it is. Likewise you are whatever you have chosen to believe you are.

We are whatever we believe ourselves to be.

Life is not an arrangement of flowers or a walk in the park

Death is an illusion, life is a dream and we are the creator of our own imagination. The present moment is the only moment available to us and is the doorway to all moments.

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.

No hay agua en tu mente cuando contemplas un lago. Dicho de otra forma, la percepción de un objeto duro no posee en sí misma, dureza. La conciencia de la confusión no se encuentra confundida. La conciencia de la locura no está loca. La conciencia del paso del tiempo no demora tiempo alguno: no hay tiempo en ella.

Quantum physics makes me so happy—it's like looking at the universe naked.

Fear is just an illusion.

Shit getting realer and realer everyday.

There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them, this is an opportunity. Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!

There is nothing in the world that we can count on, even that we will wake up is an assumption

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world

The Running Man, movie

But my dreams, they aren't as empty, as my conscience seems to be