Quotes About Reality

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

One day, years later, the soldiers wheeled around to find themselves in a city of glass. Their rifles turned to carnival glass; bullets dissolved, glittering, in their hands. From the poet's zoo they heard monkeys cry; from the poet's observatory they heard poem after poem like a call to prayer.

estaba convencido de que triunfar en este mundo que a él le parecía una mierda era una forma de equivocarse.

todo es tan garciamarqueciano que sospecho que él no existió...

Lo irreal no es lo opuesto a lo real, sino su lenguaje. Lo banal no es lo contrario de lo profundo, sino su fracaso. Lo trágico no es el reverso de lo cómico, sino su vecino. Lo antiguo no es la negación de lo nuevo, sino su futuro.

I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.

I began waking up slowly into history, from which we do not emerge as from other nightmares.

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.

I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue.

An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Although Hollywood commonly portrays children in foster care as toddlers clutching teddy bears, nearly one-half are eleven or older. And about one-fifth—103,500—are sixteen or older.

white boys] were so sure, so unbelievably sure that the way they understood the world was the way the world was.

I don't change. It's not that I change. Reality changes. Everything becomes very small, and I exist entirely inside my mind. Even my own body isn't real." Indicating

With our thoughts, we make the world. —Buddha

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.(You know, just imagine everything it says in the most sarcastic tone possible.) "There's unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody's afraid of you.

Pretending bad things aren't happening is not a great survival strategy.

There was a huge difference between knowing something happened and seeing the reality of it.

Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now.

I hate having emotions about real humans instead of fake ones, it just leads to stupid moments like this.

On the shows I liked best, monsters were always a possibility in these situations, but in reality it only happened around 27 percent of the time. Also a joke. Mostly.

these weren't intrepid galactic explorers. They were people who had been doing a job and suddenly found themselves in a terrible situation.

Expecting it and having it happen were two different things, something I learned the first time I got shot to pieces.

I was depressed this morning. I'd tried watching some new serials last night and even they couldn't distract me; reality was too intrusive.

Granted, I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can't have one without the other.