Quotes About Reality

This process of interpretation, or sometimes misinterpretation, which has much to do with the expectations we bring to any given event, is one reason we might get the impression that there is a mismatch between perception and reality

Whenever, in a democracy, we see our rulers obsessed with "the technical aspects" of the electoral process, whenever we see them tinkering with the size of constituencies, or machinery for counting ballots, then we know we are getting close to "the secret things of our town," the gap between respectable appearance and brutal reality.

Life is not a dream it is a thing

Real life is generally very haphazard in its plotting, and I think a lot of people lament that, and turn to fiction to briefly experience, albeit vicariously, a more satisfying sort of reality. We want to see *sense* -- not necessarily happy endings, but effectual actions and significant outcomes. (Postmodern fiction and metafiction, I gather, aim to call attention to the falsity of these things, which is like selling liquor that perversely makes you more sober).

You think we're hiding our secret mastery of the galaxy. In reality, we're hiding something else. Something much worse.

It's an Insta-bloody-gram world out there, baby, where everyone looks like they're having a good time except you. And it ain't true. Folks are desperate to put up photos of themselves having super fun on social media because their conscience knows those times don't last.

Life can be complicated; the truth is not.

No. It's not about luck, I don't believe in luck. There are facts and opportunities and realities, and how you respond to them determines whether you succeed or fail.

Winners don't fear reality, they don't hide from the truth, and they're not afraid to confront their own flaws and weaknesses.

This is what schizophrenia is: endless despair, endless, inconclusive treatment; endless clutching at little straws of betterness; endless realisation that that is all they are, is all there is.

The leader's role is to describe reality, and give hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, "The leader's role is to describe reality, and give hope."30

The weekend passed in two slots—bad dreams and awake. Awake was a bad dream come true, so I preferred the other kind.

To hell with tomorrow. To hell with all problems and barriers. Nothing matters but the Spectacular Now.

I'm not a dream crusher. The real world already does enough of that without me getting into the business

Nothing lasts. You think it's going to. You think 'Here's something I can hold on to', but it always slips away.

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown. Life is an ocean, and most everyone's hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.

Besides, it doesn't matter if it's real. It never does with dreams. They aren't anything anyway but lifesavers to cling to so you don't drown

We all know what a snooze perfection can be.

Nothing lasts," she says, and there's a little crack in her voice. "You think it's going to. You think, 'Here's something I can hold on to,' but it always slips away.

It's the distortion, the violation of what we think of as the rules of reality—of society, of nature, of humanity, of physics, of space and time—that engenders horror.

As much as I hated my mockery of a life, it was the only mockery I had, and I didn't particularly want to lose it. There

On September 4, General Philip Breedlove, NATO's top military commander, said this cascade of lies was an aspect of "the most amazing information warfare blitzkrieg we have ever seen." The message from the Kremlin was that reality could be bent to its will, because objective truth did not exist, and thus falsehoods could trump facts.

As a report released by the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee put it, the Russians sought to "blur the lines between reality and fiction, erode our trust in media entities and the information environment, in government, in each other, and in democracy itself." It took years before Americans understood this.