Quotes About Reality

Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else. Thank you, Confucious.

On the other hand, sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.

I think about what I didn't say then, which is this: the stars we see aren't even real stars. We see the light that they gave off millions of years ago but that is only now reaching our eyes. We don't see a star as much as a memory.

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality.

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.

Maybe they were. I don't know. Maybe they weren't. But they felt like the real thing, and the real thing wanted to make money off me.

There is truth in dreams, but especially in nightmares.

When I was growing up, my mom used to tell my sister and me about a leprechaun with a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. But she never mentioned a Russian Neanderthal with a bag of diamonds at the end of a bloody trail in a train station

What is a lie? It's a distortion of reality, presented as reality. We say it's a bad thing. We teach kids not to lie. We even put people in prison for lying. And yet there are lies all around us, and half the time we don't even really try to disguise it.

I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't exist. I loved someone Diana was pretending to be. Maybe the signs were there, but I refused to see them. Maybe I didn't want to see them.

MEANWHILE, BACK IN REALITY…

The world might look glossy and safe, but that's just paint, a shimmering clear coat.

Dreams suck. You think you've conquered something, you work on it over and over and tell yourself you're getting better, you will yourself to get better, you congratulate yourself on getting better. And then you close your eyes at night, you drift off into another world, and suddenly your own brain is tapping you on the shoulder and saying, Guess what? You're NOT better!

expecting. Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.

Our luck would not run out. That's what i told myself. But they were only words

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The color of truth is gray.

life will deceive us with relative predictability for long periods until, at the moments when we begin to feel the most comfortable, it unfolds, reminding us how powerless we all are.

The bigger the lies he pretended to tell, the more truthful the stories became.

You know," Melanie says, "most of the time things turn out well." "You're wrong. Most of the time things do not turn out well, and when they do, it's dangerous to expect that to last.

there was no recipe that ensured a good life, and virtue was a joke. So was Karma. Life slapped down the righteous and the spiritual just as easily as the wicked and the free. The trick was to embrace this reality wholeheartedly. In so doing the smart man, the perfect man, the free man could act without fear of consequences.

The laws of physics are totally different from human laws, because human laws are decisions," Ellie says. "They aren't facts.