Quotes About Reality

That is what is wrong with our age. You know full well you are not watching the sun set. You are watching the world turn.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

Doesn't seem quite real. It's not meaningful. I can't quite imagine myself being 73. That's the age my father was! [Laughter.] How can I be his age? It's weird.

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.

When you lie about your age, the terrorists win.

Why do people in this age think their own impoverished lives must be the norm of the universe?

You don't make any money when you're my age. The stars get it all. That's a lie, actually.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

The gods lie. They lie because it's the best they can do. We reach out for their lies and we keep on living.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.

What's really important about shamanism is that there is another reality that you can personally discover...we are not alone.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Looks aren't all there is in the world, my lady. They are certainly no protection against being alone. Hearts never see through the eyes. (Sebastian)

Nature introduces children to the idea—to the knowing—that they are not alone in this world, and that realities and dimensions exist alongside their own.

The single most amazing phenomenon is the discrediting of idealism.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!

Anger is frustration at the fact that we are not God, and do not have control over reality.

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

He was all show, and he had the conviction, as such people do, that show is the same as substance. He didn't think he was fooling other people; he had fooled himself.