Quotes About Reality

After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?

People never think things that are true are funny.

Apparently, he was too busy living his own life to be a character in the imaginary novel that was mine.

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.

I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty) "Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals.

Love is a mistake when we're all going to die any day now.

Mortals don't see the fey. Donia smiled wryly: if they did, Keenan would never have convinced any of them to trust him.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

We live in a world of increasing alienation, where meeting the right person for life grows harder and harder. Why would we want to spend our free time reading about this grim reality? I have spent many happy months escaping into the writing of my feel-good world of Happy Ever Afters. And what is wrong with that? It makes people feel good. I'm not selling anyone a lie.

If it seems too good to be true... it probably is.

Of course I believe that solipsism is the correct philosophy, but that's only one man's opinion.

Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil.

Before colonels commanded or astronauts flew, they were nearly forty! They told you all these things you could be, but the truth of it was that when you wanted it you couldn't have it, and when you got it, you were old and boring like everybody else. It quenched ambition

La seva vida potser sí que era una vida trista, però ¿no són tristes totes les vides es visquin com es visquin?

Here's an open secret of the big data world: all data is dirty. All of it.

these engineers turned the real world into a video game and navigated the car through it.

data is socially constructed.

Racism is definitely in the eye of the beholder. White people have at hand the privilege of choosing whether to see or not see the racism that takes place around them. If Dr. Fitzgerald could not 'fathom' my reality as a black person, how would he be able to assess or address the rage, the fear and the host of other complex emotions that go hand-in-hand with being black in a racist society? For whatever reasons, seeing a black therapist had never crossed my mind, until then.

There isn't a more perfect person somewhere, only a more perfect person we might become, and there isn't a paradise someone can lead us to unless it's the world we make for ourselves when we stop expecting it to be delivered by someone else.

What's astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

Searching out a painful image, going over it and over it in my mind, raking its sharp edges over my open psychological sores. My mind generates the million and one questions I ask in order to avoid asking the only one that matters. Can you save me? At the time I believe my thoughts are real.

in the work of R. D. Laing, who questioned the social construction of mental illness: "Setting the sick apart sustains the fantasy that we are whole." The

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.