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Quotes About Reality

The fear that the universe is not what you assume it to be is very basic, especially when you know damn well it isn't what you assume it to be.
~ John C. Lilly
Our senses through ignorance of Reality, falsely tell us that what appears to be, is. FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real
~ Plutarch
Strange times are these, in which we live, forsooth ; When young and old are taught in Falsehood's school:– And the man who dares to tell the truth, Is called at once a lunatic and fool.
~ Unknown
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.
~ Byron Katie
The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.
~ Chris Colfer
It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat sh** and die.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.
~ Brom, The Child Thief
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
~ Bill W.
One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.
~ Marilyn Manson
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
~ Isabel Allende
It is folly to fear what cannot be avoided.
~ Publilius Syrus
It's not the darkness that people fear; it's what they imagine into the darkness.
~ Byron Katie
What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?
~ Toni Morrison
There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.
~ Yukio Mishima
All reality is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair.
~ Holly Goldberg Sloan
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
~ Cecil Beaton
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Fear appears from a false vision of reality.
~ Bokar Rinpoche
Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
~ Napoleon Hill
In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.
~ Deepak Chopra
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
~ Henry David Thoreau
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.
~ Brooks Atkinson