Quotes About Reality

At the very least, noir offers an alternate reality - moments of real passion, a bleak code of honor, and a need for freedom amid corruption. At its best, noir offers a map of subversion.

It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.

Any notable moments spent on a subway usually do nothing more than expose human awfulness at its most pronounced.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

The attributes for entrepreneurs cut both ways. You need the ability to ignore inconvenient facts and see the world as it should be and not as it is. This inspires people to take huge leaps of faith. But this blindness to facts can be a liability, too. The characteristics that help entrepreneurs succeed can also lead to their failure.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Thug Life to me is dead.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

Don't believe everything you hear.Real eyes,realize,real lies.

You ain't gotta be in jail to be doin' time.

Real eyes, Realize, Real lies

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Better an imperfect dome in Florence than cathedrals in the clouds.

The grass may be greener on the other side but the the water bill is higher.

Never argue with what is.

People often say that the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try to avoid it.

The fashion industry is based on these images that don't exist.

Perception is reality, because that is their truth.

The demand for permanence in every area of our existence is the cause of human misery. There's no such thing as permanence at all.

The framing of what there is by the mind is what you call beauty.

You say that I am living in illusion. But poverty, work, war, they are not illusions. Are they? In what sense am I being deluded? What you experience through your separative consciousness is an illusion. You can't say that falling bombs are an illusion. It is not an illusion, only your experience of it is an illusion. The reality of the world that you are experiencing now is an illusion. That is all I am trying to say. If you say that

I may sound very cynical, but a cynic is really a realist.

You don't actually know anything about that person or that thing, except what you are projecting on that object or the individual. The knowledge you have about it is the experience. It goes on and on. That's all. What that really is, you have no way of knowing.

I am like a puppet sitting here. It's not just I; all of us are puppets. Nature is pulling the strings, but we believe we are acting. If you function that way (as puppets), then the problems are simple. But we have superimposed on that (the idea of) a "person" who is pulling those strings.