Quotes About Reality

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

It's as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

I can't pretend to know what love is. It just is.

3. You think that looks like a heart? If you do, that's only because you've never seen scrotum.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

you know, how people say it's good luck if a bird shits on you? and people believe it! i just want to grab them and say, 'dude, don't you realize this whole superstition was made up because no one could think of anything else good to say to a person who'd just been shit upon?

tiny: but there is the word, this word phil wrayson taught me once: weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be. i live in a big goddamned weltzschermz ocean, you know? and so do you.

Do I really have to find a word for it? Can't it just be what it is?

gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.

Game over, you say, and I don't know which I take more exception to-- the fact that you say its over, or the fact that you say it's a game.

your life isn't out there waiting, so don't think all you have to do is find it and get it. no, your life is right here. and, yeah, it sucks. lives usually do. so if you want things to change, you don't need to get a life. you need to get off your ass.

Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

I know it was more than that. But it was also less than that, too.

me: you know what sucks about love? o.w.g.: what? me: that it's so tied to the truth. I know it sucks, but in a way, it's good....Love and truth being tied together, I mean. They make each other possible, you know?

I am breathing. In dreams, we never bother to breathe.

I am not dangerous. Only the stories are dangerous. Only the fictions we create, especially when they become expectations.

I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact.

But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.