Quotes About Reality

The deceit in loving a woman sometimes, is that most women fall in love with assumed personality, but eventually live with their true character.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

We like to think we are rational beings living logical lives based upon objective facts. But the truth is, we are rationalizing beings who base most of our decisions on what we feel or believe and come up with the logic to justify our decisions afterwards. We don't really know as much as we think we do.

we base our lives more on what we believe than on what we actually know.

Crushing people is the truth's hobby.

But excuses didn't mean anything in the end. What _actually happened_ in the end was what mattered.

There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You

Running is real and relatively simple…but it ain't easy.

Sara suddenly had celebrity. Funny thing was, the sun didn't rise any later. The cow didn't milk herself, the weeds didn't stop growing, the tub of wash water didn't get any lighter, and corn bread didn't miraculously appear on plates every night. Day to day, Sara's life didn't change one whit. At least not right away.

When, at a closer glance, so many objects are questionable, when all knowledge seems to be clothed in a kind of deep unknowing, why do we still place any trust at all in reality as it appears to us, in the world in which we seem to live?

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

I know that I, like every living thing, will have to die some day, but my hands, my feet and my guts still don't know it, which is why death seems so unreal.

Wie falsch und trügerisch die Welt ist! Zuerst lockt sie bunt und glitzert vor Schönheit, dann tut Mama den Mund auf, und alles verwandelt sich in Bazillen und Gelatine.

Ich erinnere mich sehr gut, wie wenig Phantasie die meisten Menschen besaßen. Wahrscheinlich war das ein Glück für sie. Phantasie macht den Menschen überempfindlich, verletzbar und ausgeliefert. Vielleicht ist sie überhaupt eine Entartungserscheinung. Ich habe den Phantasielosen ihren Mangel nie angekreidet, manchmal habe ich sie sogar um ihn beneidet. Sie hatten ein leichteres und angenehmeres Leben als die anderen.

Nach einer Weile fing sie an, sich Vernunft zu predigen. Es war alles geschehen und nicht zu ändern, und im Grunde wünschte sie es gar nicht geändert. Wie immer sie ihr Leben gelebt hätte, heute würde sie auf diesem Stein sitzen, mit dem Verdacht in Herzen, den falschen Weg gegangen zu sein. Das Leben war einfach zu stark, um bewältigt zu werden.

Ce n'est que lorsque la connaissance d'une chose se répand dans le corps qu'on la sait vraiment. C'est ainsi que je n'ignore pas, comme tout un chacun, que je vais mourir, mais mes pieds, mes mains, mes entrailles l'ignorent encore et c'est pourquoi la mort me semble irréelle.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

Since physical escape is impossible, the child escapes mentally. She floats out of her body, imagining that somebody else is being raped or beaten, and turns off her emotions, saying, "This isn't happening to me.

One answer turned up in the violent video games the two were obsessed with playing. Graphic effects realistic enough to blur the line between fantasy and reality allow these kill-for-thrill games to be used to break down a person's aversion to killing. At the time of the massacre, Doom, the game favored by one of the mass murderers, was being adapted by the Marine Corps for its own training purposes.

Derealization—A feeling that one's surroundings are strange or unreal. Often involves previously familiar people.

Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings.

If you lived all your life with monsters, what was monstrous?