Quotes About Reality

Death is part of life. If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because

Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are.

An abundance of pessimists might bend reality to Armageddon just by expecting

My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers.

I couldn't make up anything as weird as what is.

Remember Carl Jung. Werner Heisenberg. The tenuous nature of reality on the quantum level. Attitude, attitude, attitude!

Every palace and every work of art is only dust as yet unrealized, and time is the patient wind that will whither it all away.

Pero nadie es por completo honesto con todo el mundo, siempre y en todos los aspectos. Qué diantre, la necesidad de engañar no es más que otra de las maldiciones que debe soportar nuestra pobre especie.

because truth is always and only what it is

In this brave new digital world, reality is plastic, and your identity is whatever you wish it to be. As is your future: Wish it, build it, live it.

If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because every one of them will die one day.

I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.

Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.

The encounter unfolded as though the deer moved in different universes from ours, as if we were briefly visible to each other through some window between our realities. Having no substance in each other's realm, the SUV slid through the herd, and the frightened herd bounded past the SUV, and we didn't collide with any of them, although we must have missed more than one by a fraction of an inch.

I longed to pluck a volume off a shelf and escape into its pages, for even the nightmare worlds of Lovecraft, Poe, or Bram Stoker would be more appealing than the real world in which we had to live.

Denial endures because it soothes.

On the quantum level, reality is spookily fragile and can be manipulated. By whom? By us. —Ganesh Patel

the nature of the world when you dared to see it clearly: a place of mystery in which extraordinary coincidences were more common than they seemed.

Carson heard that expression more often these days—It is what it is—and it nettled him every time someone spoke it.

THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD. YOU MIGHT have argued against that contention twenty years ago, but if you argue it in our time, you only prove that you, too, live in delusion.

Worstead exists

Some believed the most ridiculous things without a shred of evidence, but wouldn't believe a truth even when it stuck its fingers in their eyes. So to speak.

Watches and clocks measure our perception of time, not time itself.

People would be forced to confront the daunting fact that the truth they claimed to pursue and cherish was in fact a burden that they most often chose not to carry, that the lies they insisted they despised were instead often preferred to hard facts and cold reality.