Quotes About Reality

Happiness equals reality minus expectations. Apparently, you can make people happy by delivering bad news and then taking it back

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Plus vieux, tu comprendras que, malgré les apparences, il n'y a pas de bon ou mauvais moment. Il y a un moment, point final.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

Wake in bed and know, because dreams are not true, that the sun will be shining and it will not storm today.

none of us are getting out this world unscathed.

She looked down at the diamond sparkler and everything it represented—home, hearth, husband, family. She should want this, but the truth was she was up to her ears in home, hearth, and family. The only new addition would be husband.

Appearances are deceitful, I know, but so long as they are, there's nothing like having them deceive for us instead of against us.

Sometimes having the dream makes you more content than having the reality.

Life was a strange circle. She tried not to decipher it, but rather to accept it as it came.

But in the moonlight they were little more than silhouettes. A reflection of her life. A mere shadow of what she'd expected it to be.

There is little I can expound on when the truth is spoken.

And while she pretended he was someone else, he would pretend she had no reason to imagine he was anyone other than who he was.

That is the thing about monsters, Pettypeace. They are monsters because they can delude people into believing they aren't.

You are unhappy because you believe in such a thing as happy.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Once love had seemed like magic. Now it seemed like tricks.

I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Relativity keeps anything from happening at once. Quantum mechanics keeps everything from really happening at all.

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?

Wanting to steer toward great outcomes is noble. But trying to control the world is disastrous. In time, controllers crack under the reality that none of us are in control.

Yes, our world is real, but its temporal reality offers us but a glimpse, a faint foreshadowing of the greater reality that is to come.

Hell is a state of mind . . .  And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind—is, in the end, Hell.  But Heaven is not a state of mind.  Heaven is reality itself.