Quotes About Reality

That which is imagined need never be lost.

You know, as a child I thought somebody came and took the world away in the night and then came back and unrolled it all again the following morning.

Nothing is fixed. In and out the shuttle goes fact and fiction, mind and matter, woven into patterns that may have only this in common: that hidden amongst them is a filigree which will with time become a world.

Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that.

Nothing's right .... except what you feel and know.

I wonder if the reverse is not also in some way true. That the artist is constantly working on an elaborate and fantasticated self-portrait, but at the end has drawn, unbeknown, a picture of the world.

I want an explanation!" "I'll give you one," Maxine said: "You're crazy.

Horror shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory.

I've heard writers defend some pretty appalling stuff by arguing that they have an obligation to depict the world as it is, but fiction has no such obligation. It's not a mirror to reality, it's a prism. It refracts experience. Also, I think some writers are reluctant to admit that part of their aim is to shock the reader, and that's a downward spiral. We have, as consumers, become increasingly inured to violence. Most of us are pretty hard to shock.

Houses weren't haunted, only human minds.

If you were alone on earth, what would you know? What the mirror told you, that's all. The rest would be myth and conjecture.

But then sanity was a movable feast, wasn't it? One man's madness might be another's politics.

but as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction.

Brooding only looks good in the movies.

En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad.

Sanity is a movable feast. One man's madness is another's politics.

Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!

You should see the latest computer-generated movies featuring the long-gone old stars with the new. I've watched the video of Arizona Sunset at least a dozen times. Who plays the leads? Humphrey Bogart, Lionel Barrymore, Marilyn Monroe, Julia Roberts, and Tom Cruise. It's so real, you'd swear they all acted together on the set.

Life is monstrous, but life is beautiful

Real people are messy and complicated and generally inconvenient, but at least they are there

El maquillaje puede ser una falsedad, pero no si todo el mundo lo lleva. Si todo el mundo va maquillado, el maquillaje se convierte en en la manera en que son las cosas. Y que es la verdad sino la manera en que son las cosas?

What is there in thee, Man, that can be known? Dark fluxion, all unfixable by thought, A phantom dim of past and future wrought, Vain sister of the worm ...

A journey is not a cure. It brings an illusion, only, of change, and becomes at best a spartan comfort

I had a heady dream of loving her, as if she were an actress on a stage of my own making; and as the night wore on, my imaginings wandered into make-believe, and died beyond the tent of the mosquito net, where Vincent was snoring, and the African stars were shining in through our lone window, and nothing was quite real.