Quotes About Reality

Last time I checked being perfect wasnt in normal human nature.

I may not be the smartest kid in the world or in this family. I have my weakness. I'm not perfect nor am I close to being perfect.

I never get my expectations high or think everything's gonna be perfect because being perfect is not real and is impossible.

Being the other woman isn't as fun as it looks in the movies...just saying.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

If you've chosen egocentricity for your career path than you've chosen to live with the illusion that your surroundings will serve you continuously.

The world spins, but not around you.

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

Take the life...lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so its no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else.

The word "expert" in a self description should be followed by the word 'bullsh...'

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

You have always been deciding the truth of your life. It is how you decide to feel about it. There is no need to try to work out what something means. You decide what it means.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

Self pity is most destructive & self punishable emotion.Self pity gets you no where. It makes victim of being away from reality. One must have courage to accept oneself with pride & strive to present best of himself.

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Ultimately, whatever is in your reality is your responsibility.

A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

That awkward moment when you try to get over a girl who was never yours to begin with.

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think