Quotes About Reality

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Listen up. Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.' Sometimes Rant said, 'You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.' If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.

No shit, there's worse ways to be dead than dying.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

The on­ly thing I know is ev­ery­thing you love will die.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

Ev­ery­thing you re­mem­ber is wrong.

It's eerie, but what's happening is the folks are staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor staring at themselves in the monitor, on and on, completely trapped in a reality loop that never ends.

A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.

The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Ig­nore how it feels when the on­ly re­al tal­ent you have is for hid­ing the truth.

There's nothing special in the world. Nothing magic. Just physics.

We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war. Our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

You wake up, and you're nowhere. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. You wake up, and that's enough.

Give me release. I'm tired of this world of appearances. Pigs that only look fat. Families that look happy. Give me deliverance. From what only looks like generosity. What only looks like love. Flash.

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams.

Rant Casey used to say, No matter what happens, it's always now... Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger.

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention.

She could see it so clear. She could picture every room, inside every house. And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

We're all here. Alive and unwell.

What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.