Quotes About Reality

Sometimes when you're upset it's so easy to forget what's real and go for what makes you feel better. (131)

They say there's no harm in daydreaming, but there is.

Life is like a reel life but real life is not reel life.

Show me life as I've learned it:blood and guts,violence and sex.

The grass may be greener on the other side, but either way…you've got to mow it.

The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.

Ethics is a dream, and tenderness a daytime phantasm, lost when night comes.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

I know that ghosts and demons did exist, they did, if only you thought about them long enough and hard enough.

And that's the whole point. The mind, Doctor. It's everything. If you think you have a pain in your arm and there's no physical reason for it, you don't hurt any less.

Lucien thought. And as for Christianity, he agreed with his father: it was a well-intentioned set of beliefs that never worked in real life.

I can't even produce a metaphor for the drug world anymore. I don't even like the phrase the drug world since the phrase implies a different world.

Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.

There is no standard by which time can be measured, but the succession of our thoughts, and the changes that take place in the external world.

Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

There is nothing more boring than the truth.

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

The image that the Word creates in you is already a reality in the spirit realm. When you speak God's Word from your heart, then faith gives substance to the promises of God.

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

In a curious twist, I realize I always knew TV news seemed full of shit, but I never knew it was, in fact, full of shit.