Quotes About Reality

Or in other words, science fiction is about what could be but isn't; fantasy is about what couldn't be.

Metaphorical flavor doesn't influence reality," said the expendable.

It's all just fictions anyway. We do what we do and then we make up reasons for it afterward but they're never the true reasons, the truth is always just out of reach.

That's the truth—what is, what was, what will be—not what could be, what should have been, what never can be.

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed.>

Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.

Truth is independent of facts always.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

Even things that are true can be proved.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.