Quotes About Reality

The people we define as crazy just might be more sane than you and me.

Things don't always look as they seem. Make of it what you will.

JUST SO YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY SAY "ONCE UPON a time"… they're lying. It's not once upon a time. It's not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

Only the liar knows if he's lying

When you expect something, you're sure to be disappointed. I learned that a long time ago.

To live was always a conditional verb.

Is it better not knowing the ugly truth, and pretending it doesn't exist? Or is it better to confront it, even though that knowledge may be a weight you carry around forever? I am about to give her my opinion when Eliza is

F=R/E o, lo que es lo mismo, Felicidad es igual a Realidad dividido por Expectativas)

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead

Truth expands until it can choke you.

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe

Truth vibrates when it's drawn across the bow of pain.

I look around at the curl of clouds in the sky, the sun glittering on the ocean in the distance. A picture postcard. Just a few hundred miles away this virus is killing people so fast that they don't have room for bodies, but you would never know it from where I stand.

I have this math teacher, Mr. Allen. He said that when you're a point, all you see is the point. When you're a line, all you see is the line and the point. When you're in three dimensions, you see three dimensions and lines and points. Just because we can't see a fourth dimension doesn't mean it doesn't exist. It just means we haven't reached it yet.

gente se ha inventado todo tipo de formas de hacer que las cosas parezcan diferentes de lo que son en realidad. Una habitación puede sumirse en una noche artificial. El Botox transforma los rostros de las personas en algo que no son. El TiVo te hace creer que eres capaz de congelar el tiempo, o al menos de reordenarlo a tu antojo.

Revenge, in theory, throbbed with adrenaline and was clean with conviction. In reality, it was rushing into a house on fire, and forgetting to map out your exit.

Driving home, I am struck by the sudden thought that the world is inflatable, trees and grass and houses ready to collapse with the single prick of a pin. I have the sense that if I veer the car to the left, smash through the picket fence and the little Tykes playground, it will bounce us back like a rubber bumper.

no matter how spectacular we want our children to be, no matter how perfect we pretend they are, they are bound to disappoint. As it

Estadísticas aparte, Lewis pasaría a la historia por ser el economista que había ideado una fórmula para la felicidad: R/E, o, lo que es lo mismo, Realidad dividido por Expectativas. Había dos caminos para ser feliz: o bien mejorar la realidad, o bien rebajar las expectativas.

It's called acting. It's not all that difficult to be the person people expect you to be. It's harder to remember who your really are.

A story danced in his head as he walked through the dried buffalo grass of winter. The stiff stalks made a swishing sound, like a brush lightly moving over a drum. His imagination was all the escape he needed most days. He was leaving his world, his reality, his home, if only for an hour. If only in his mind.

Think of it as a parallel universe. But maybe it's the real one, and we're in a dream.

Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being there … the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.

It's not as if I will be the first leader who ever turned her back on the truth because her people needed the comfort of fantasy. If everyone shared my sense of loss we would be paralyzed, doomed. I have to put it behind myself literally. Live only with the present and the future. We have no real past. We live in a hollow rock surrounded by nothing. Outside of this bubble of life, night that goes on forever. But this is true: it's only in the night that you can see the stars.