Quotes About Reality

The notion that somehow you're going to have freedom just kind of outbreak in Cuba, I think is false.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

You do not lament the loss of hair of one who has been beheaded.

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

All the people we used to know, they're an illusion to me now.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

It pays to know who your friends are but it also pays to know you ain't got any friends.

Friendship is the ideal; friends are the reality; reality always remains far apart from the ideal.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

If you've never seen an elephant ski, then you've never been on acid.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Not that smart. Not that hot. Not that nice. Not that funny. That's me: I'm not that.

I am who I am. I can't pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.

Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. Surround yourself with people who make you a better person.

Fate. Destiny. Life...3 words that make you who you are, and who you will be, and make the present reality.

The sad thing is I actually thought you were different...