Quotes About Reality

The insomnia distance of everything, a copy of a copy of a copy. You can't touch anything, and nothing can touch you.

perchè la realtà non arriva mai dove può spingersi l'immaginazione. Nessuna donna è davvero bella come lo è nella tua testa. Niente è eccitante quanto la tua fantasia.

Somos los hijos medianos de la historia, educados por la televisión para creer que un día seremos millonarios y estrellas de cine y estrellas de rock, pero no es así.

Nos resulta imposible imaginar el pasado. El pasado, el futuro, la vida en otros planetas, todo son extensiones, proyecciones de la vida tal como la conocemos.

Por favor, enséñenme una sola cosa en el mundo que sea lo que parece.

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.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is Hell.

No somos especiales. Tampoco somos escoria o basura. Simplemente, somos.

You are not special. You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We're all part of the same compost heap.

Noi non siamo speciali. Non siamo nemmeno merda. Noi siamo. Noi siamo soltanto e quello che succede succede soltanto.

the remaining journalists convinced themselves that no absolute truths existed.

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We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The natural world destroyed, we're left with this cluttered world of language.

You grab the core essence of a true problem and swaddle it in the mad glittery ribbons of fantasy — and therein you find glorious new permutations of conflict. Reality expressed in mind-boggling ways. Reach for fantasy. Find the reality.

2. Words Define Reality Words are like LEGO bricks: the more we add, the more we define the reality of our playset. The dog fucked the chicken tells us something. The Great Dane fucked the chicken tells us more. The Great Dane fucked the bucket of fried chicken on the roof of Old Man Dongweather's barn, barking with every thrust goes the distance and defines reality in a host of ways

Human sacrifice has power," he said. "The world has long understood that, but now it pretends to know differently—ohh, we're all so buttoned-up, pretending we don't do those things anymore, even though we sacrifice the homeless on our cold streets, or migrant children at the border, or the poor at every turn.

everyone likes to be sold easy promises, don't they?

If you're being skewered by a unicorn, the secret is: tell the unicorn he doesn't exist. If you do that, he'll disappear in a puff of Lucky Charms cereal. That's true. That's fact. Same thing goes for writer's block.

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquities.

Be, rather than seem

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard, judicial precedent, or statute.

To be rather than to seem.

Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.

Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever again.