Quotes About Reality

the True End of not only therapy but Maturity is to learn to live with the inescapable fact that 97% of all human beings are getting fucked and 97% of all faggots are, too.

Looking thirty, claiming forty, actually forty-five.

There is only one Long Day's Journey into Night. There is only one Death of a Salesman

After all, beauty has only three possible endings, & only one of them is bearable.

Becoming real simply because he'd appeared on a few thousand TV screens. Growing up with a sense that media events were real, and personal events were not. Anything that didn't happen on television didn't happen. Even as he hated conventional programming, even as he regarded it as the cud of ruminants, still it defined his sense of personal unreality; and left him unfinished.

This is the postmodern desert inhabited by people who are, in effect, consuming themselves in the form of images and abstractions through which their desires, sense of identity, and memories are replicated and then sold back to them as products

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.

But just let me tell you something, son, a woman's love is like the morning dew, it's just as apt to settle on a horse turd as it is on a rose. So you better just get over it.

Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in order to stop the men. The fairies have left the men's reality in order to destroy it by making a new one.

Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

Enlightenment, after all, is just one more bone. It's an idea we have.

If the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off

Maybe, as children, we are open to the spirit world, and see things adults or non-sensitive people don't see. Since children are not able to distinguish things or spirits from another reality, from beings in our world, perhaps they believe their invisible playmates are

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.

The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth doesn't care.

Only the tourists really understand Cambridge, Wittgenstein says. Cambridge is only there to be photographed: that's what they grasp. Cambridge is a collective fantasy …

I romanticised Mancunian despair, W says. I didn't realise that Mancunian despair is only the desire to leave Manchester

Jeg ville bli skuespillerinne en gang. Jeg tok timer, har jeg fortalt deg det, Kim? - Hvorfor fortsatte du ikke? - Det er ikke alltid livet blir slik man hadde tenkt seg det. Det må du lære også.

An optimist thinks this is the best of all worlds. A pessimist fears the same may be true.

The truth can both lift up and knock down.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things -- they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

I don't watch a lot of TV. I am madly in love, I'm a big sap, I'm madly in love with Extreme Makeover Home Edition. I cry every week.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.