Quotes About Reality

it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunize you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

Well, honesty gets you locked up in a psych ward.

T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.

an ordinary life is not a guarantee of happiness.

the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn't the place, but the perspective.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Philip K. Dick wrote that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

To believe in the things we feel at that point is wrong, because those feelings would disappear with food or sleep.

It was depressing that he found it so much easier to question his sanity than my reality.

What sometimes feels like a trap is actually just a trick of the mind.

So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.

An online profile of your best friend is not your best friend. A status update about a day in the park is not a day in the park. And the desire to tell the world about how happy you are is not how happy you are.

Thomas Hobbes had viewed memory and imagination as pretty much the same thing, and since discovering that she had never entirely trusted her memories.

In a world that can get too much, a world where we are running out of mind space, fictional worlds are essential. They can be an escape from reality, yes, but not an escape from truth.

To feel hope you don't need to be in a great situation. You just need to understand that things will change. Hope is available to all. You don't need to deny the reality of the present in order to have hope, you just need to know the future is uncertain, and that life contains light as well as dark.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called "The World." No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.

The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.

I should also say, in case it needs saying: I don't know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren't. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

I mean, it would have made things a lot easier if we understood there was no way of living that can immunise you against sadness. And that sadness is intrinsically part of the fabric of happiness. You can't have one without the other. Of course, they come in different degrees and quantities. But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.

I am just saying if you knew about me there would be a very strong chance you would think I was insane.

Depression lies. And while the feelings themselves were real, the things they led me to believe were resolutely not.

The text began to swirl and soon became indecipherable, in fast motion, as she felt herself weaken. She never knowingly let go of the #book, but there was a moment where she was no longer a person #reading it, and a consequent moment where there was no book--or library--at all.

This is what happens when you live on Earth. You crack. You hold reality in your hands until it burns and then you have to drop the plate.

But there is no life where you can be in a state of sheer happiness for ever. And imagining there is just breeds more unhappiness in the life you're in.