Quotes About Reality

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

A lie, when believed, became the truth.

For nonreaders, life is simply what they touch and see, not what they feel when they open the pages of a play and are transported to the Forest of Arden or Illyria. Where the world is full of a thousand colors for those who love books, I suspect it is simply black and gray to everyone else. A tree is a tree to them; it is never a magical doorway to another world populated with beings that don't exist here.

This isn't how I imagined our lives would be when I was Queen of Libya and you King of Armenia.

It's real. I saw it. It isn't alive.

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

Truth, like beauty, is in the eyes of the beholder.

If you can be talked into something, you can be talked out of it. But when you experience something for yourself, you can't deny that. It becomes your undisputed truth, and no one can convince you otherwise.

the truth isn't in the facts, and the facts don't always tell the truth. The truth is in the experience.

You can't unscramble eggs.

The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath

What is the reality of a drag queen? my stranger had asked. What indeed? I thought. What is the reality of any identity?

But philosophy is one thing, praxis is another.

It might sound strange, it might sound irrational, but in extraordinary situations people often behave in extraordinary ways. Elaborate conspiracy theories are just an attempt to bring order to the chaos of life. Reality is frequently much stranger.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

You can't always get what you want.

Today's man speaks little types more, works little hypes more, faces humans less and Skypes more. Life has become so unreal. Deal less, feel more, do less be more and let your intimacy with life be realized, bond in flesh, blood, spirit and get MickeyMized.

reality is never as perfect as fantasy.

I have found that most serial killers suffer from personality disorders rather than mental diseases. People with personality disorders have rigid personality structures and often have difficulties with interpersonal relationships, but they are not mad. On the other hand, people suffering from mental diseases may lose contact with reality, hallucinate and deteriorate in their general functioning.

For him, art is the only possible way of understanding and knowing the world. Reality only becomes meaningful when it is re-created in art. Language possesses a sheer-magical power that allows the writer to create and to conquer time.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.