Quotes About Reality

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.

I do not believe in my death.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.

When the camera starts to roll, there is something of death about it.

All true stories end in death.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

Death does not wait for you to be ready! Death is not considerate or fair. And make no mistake: here, you face death.

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.