Quotes About Reality

But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums. People always obediently smiled and tilted their heads when a camera was put in front of them. Perhaps seconds after the shutter clicked [they] sprang apart, avoiding each others' eyes, their smiles replaced by snarls.

I couldn't act like a normal person again when she now knows me as a crazy person, because that would imply I have a choice. That I can choose to be crazy or normal. And if I have a choice, then that would imply that I'm not really crazy at all, and I should just stop it and get on with my life.

Her brain couldn't seem to catch up with the news. It was like the way she'd kept rolling toward Will last night in her sleep, only to find empty space where he should have been, and then waking up with a jolt.

Maybe she does think her life is a friggin' fairytale, like her friend Claire had said once when they were both very drunk. 'Sophie, your problem is that you think life is a friggin' fairytale. You're so friggin' optimistic you don't just see the glass as half-full, you see it as full, of, of…pink champagne! And the thing is, the glass isn't full, Sophie! It's half empty!

He wasn't falling for the lie, she could tell. He didn't need to believe it as badly as her parents did.

As man imagines himself to be, so shall he be, and he is that which he imagines." So said Paracelsus in the fifteenth century.

Cecilia did not know why her three slender daughters loved watching overweight people sweat and cry and starve.

When the match is over it's like waking up from a beautiful dream.

Oh for Christ's sake, now she is crying over some imaginary cheerful lady.

You think terrible things happened on the battlefields, but terrible things happened in ordinary suburban homes.

Yeah, I'm so crazy. Although probably that was evidence of her lack of craziness. Truly crazy people were too busy being crazy to think about it.

for the most part she'd always felt satisfied or at least accepting of the universe in which she found herself … except for right now, because right now it felt like there had been some sort of cataclysmic quantum-physics administrative error. She'd slipped universes.

People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept.

It is in most cases more difficult to make intelligent people believe that you are what you are not, than really to become what you would appear to be.

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

Practically speaking, there are for each one of us two supreme realities -- God and the soul. The heavens and the earth will pass away. But the soul will still remain, face to face with God.

Our focus is our reality. What we choose to focus on becomes our world. It produces our thoughts, values, attitudes, and beliefs.

If you know how much reality is getting in, then you know a great deal about what a person sees to be true.

She put her head back, then her eyes closed. We stuck in the moment, like the time froze. Then my girl called, back to reality. But I keep in a picture in my heart gallery.

Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth.

I should cherish life, but this aint paradise.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Oh God, Oh God we're all gonna die doesn't really fit the definition of banter, now does it?

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.