Quotes About Reality

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

how often fears come to sour our life and prove, in the end, to have no foundation, no reason to exist

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?

Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn't let something be what it actually was.

If you have an imagination, welcome to the gates of Reality.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

In a world filled with liars, some still seem surprised at the lengths to which some will go-yet we fear our own truth & so become numb to our own senses.

Fear is and has always been dead. It's how we picture it that makes fear come to life.

Safety and constancy were illusions granted only to those afraid enough not to peer beyond the walls.

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

The biggest public fallacy is that the market is always right. The market is nearly always wrong. I can assure you of that.

Very few of the heroes of the Golden Age of American finance had much interest in the solid realities of what underlay their structure of stocks and bonds and credits .

The arrangement bore the same relation to actual finance as fantasy football bears to the NFL.

Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world.

The bathroom scale knows nothing of extenuating circumstances.

Reality is an illusion created by a lack of alcohol.

What is literature compared with cooking? The one is shadow, the other is substance.

We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles.

Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.

No matter how thin you slice it it's still baloney.

Marketing is essentially about feeding the poop back to diners fast enough to make them think they're still getting real food.