Quotes About Reality

Nobody ever own a gun. You don't know that until you own one.

Living people wait and see because they fool themselves that they have time.

Papa-Lo start thinking too deep and start thinking that he should be more than what he is. He's the worst kind of fool, the fool who start believing things can get better.

Everywhere I go to find this boy, to save this boy, I run into something worse than what we are saving him from … but we still think monsters are the ones with claws, and scales and skin.

Fucking hell. Shit sounds like I'm writing for ladies who lunch on Fifth Avenue. Unending vortex of ugly? Holy sensationalism, Batman! Who the fuck am I writing for? I could move in closer, get to the real Singer, but I'll just fail like every other journalist

You'll be asking of love next," he said. "Well, do you have love for the man, and does the man love you?" He looked straight at me. Either he just grew whiskers, or I just saw them. "Nobody loves no one," he said. He turned away and nodded at the tree.

people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For

I love how Americans can just claim something to be whatever they feel it is despite clear evidence it is not. Like football game with nobody using any feet that takes forever.

Plenty people even in the middle of sufferation going pick the bad they know over the good they can only dream about, because who dream but madman and fool?

We don't own truth. Truth is truth and nothing you can do about it even if you hide it, or kill it, or even tell it. It was truth before you open your mouth and say, That there is a true thing.

It reminded me to never take the story of any god or spirit or magical being to be all true. If the gods created everything, was truth not just another creation?

Because at the end of a true story, there is nothing but waste.

Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.

truth is truth and nothing you can do about it even if you hide it or kill it or even tell it. It was truth before you open your mouth and say, that there is a true thing

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Few maxims are true in every respect.

People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

The self is seen as a psychological fiction, which means that its relationships are essentially fiction.

We're accompanied by an internal play-by-play announcer who is forever proclaiming the way things supposedly are and should be in our game of life. This announcer believes it's being helpful, but it doesn't realize the commentaries are ruining the game. Not only is it covering over the real action, but it's setting us up for disappointment, since the game itself rarely matches what's supposed to be happening.

we go through life grumbling about what should be at the expense of accepting what is. Within that bubble of delusion, we grant ourselves an autonomy and superiority we have not earned. We imagine how much better the world would be if we had the power to make the decisions. We don't.

we go through life grumbling about what should be at the expense of accepting what is

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in.