Quotes About Reality

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

A day in Afghanistan is like a week at home.

There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'

One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are.

Meditation is simply seeing reality and acknowledging it with bare honesty.

Have the courage to face the truth

When others asked the truth of me, I was convinced it was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

If the truth doesn't save us, what does that say about us?

Maybe my expectations for honesty are too high.

Honesty is making our words align with reality. Integrity is making reality align with our words.

Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

Like the he-man movie stars who turn out to be queer . . . or the silent-film actors whose voices sound terrible recorded--the audience only wants a limited amount of honesty. [ellipses original]

The truth ain't pretty. That's how you can identify it.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

Faith changes hope into reality.

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.