Quotes About Reality

You get everybody telling the same lie and it ain't a lie, not no more.

To shut yourself off from these stories is to accept the banal version of reality that's always used to frame advertisements for miracle wrinkle creams and miracle diet pills . It's as if we've denied the real magic of life so that we can sell each other the sham magic of consumer products . Another example of the shop replacing the church .

nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Still, the better she could draw, the worse her life got--until nothing in her real world was good enough. It got until she didn't belong anywhere. It got so nobody was good enough, refined enough, real enough. Not the boys in high school. Not the other girls. Nothing was real as her imagined world.

You are not special. Your are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

She set them up on a date with their subconscious because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.

That would be like breaking a mirror for showing you the truth.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he'll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense. Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that--he was right.

My point is I know Brandy is maybe probably going to die, but I just can't get into it.

And the kid is stupid enough to think a picture or a sculpture or a story could somehow replace anybody you love.

Rant Casey no era malvado. Más bien parecía que estuviera intentando encontrar algo real en el mundo. Hoy día los niños no crecen conectados a nada, se pasan el tiempo enchufados y viviendo vidas que otra gente ha alucinado para ellos. Aventuras de segunda mano. Creo que Rant quería que todo el mundo experimentara por lo menos una aventura de verdad. En tanto que comunidad, algo que uniera a la gente.

but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is Earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

This is the 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.

The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all a part of the same compost pile.

everybody thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Tienes que saber, no temer, saber que algún día vas a morir, y hasta que no entiendas eso, eres inútil.

We don't live in the real world anymore. We live in a world of symbols.

All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

Once someone who draws superheroes draws your picture , you never want to go back to reality .

I liked it better when you couldn't be so sure. When terrifying rumors were distant enough to be a UFO at the bottom of Loch Ness. When the horribly compelling train-wreck tragedies of less fortunate people's lives were only as real as you let them be. Just a cover of a magazine, a black-and-white photo on some late-night commercial for a charity. Now confirmation is just a mouse click away.

We are the middle children of history, raised by television to believe that someday we'll be millionaires and movie stars and rock stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact," Tyler said. "So don't fuck with us.