Quotes About Reality

It's a highly deceptive world, one that constantly asks you to comment but doesn't really care what you have to say. The illusion of participation can sometimes lead to participation. But more often than not, it only leads to more illusion, dressed in the guise of reality.

with you I feel real. but then I worry about the me that lies beneath.

when people say right person, wrong time, or wrong person, right time, it's usually a cop-out. They think that fate is playing with them. That we're all just participants in this romantic reality show that God gets a kick out of watching. But the universe doesn't decide what's right or not right. You do.

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 almost heartening to think that the attachment you have can define your perception as much as any other influence.

The truth feels different from other things. The closest you can come to describing it is that it feels like taking a perfect breath.

The truth doesn't have to advertise itself. All the truth needs to be is true.

The truth. Really the Truth.

I love the idea that an abuse can be negated. And that the things most often disabused are notions.

But no relationship should rely on you blocking out the world. The world will always get in.

I will not let myself think that things are suddenly better. I will not let myself think that we've somehow escaped the us we always end up being. But at the same time, I will not deny what's happening. I will not deny this happiness. Because if happiness feels real, it almost doesn't matter if it's real or not.

We lost track of time because we felt like time had lost track of us.

Unless you count the way the words sink into Neil, the way his life feels a little more solid than it did five minutes before.

It felt a littlel less like a game. A trick. A trap.

That's what makes it a good photograph. You think you know what's going on in her head. but the truth? No matter how good a photograph is, you can never tell what's going on in the person's mind. There's no way to get from here to there.

Perhaps it never happened. Perhaps it happened while I was asleep. Most likely, there's no signal event. There's just the steady accumulation of 'awhile'.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the person inside your head.

Migraines Are Only in Your Mind.

Yeah, but the truth isn't very helpful if people don't believe it.

I got confused between what I wanted to happen and what I should have known would happen. I've been doing that a lot lately. I know it's not helpful.

Our love had been liking; our feelings had been ordinary, not Shakespearean.

You should never wish for wishful thinking.

life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality.

I know I am lying to myself, but I also choose to believe it.

He thought it was love. When, in fact, it was like three hundred ninety-fifth in line for love.