Quotes About Reality

What's happening is merely what's happening. How you feel about it is another matter.

Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.

We endow our poor lovers with godly traits, and then destroy them for being mortal.

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.

I'm fine. Well, I'm not fine - I'm here." "Is there something wrong with that?" "Absolutely.

Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.

Sometimes I just think depression's one way of coping with the world. Like, some people get drunk, some people do drugs, some people get depressed. Because there's so much stuff out there that you have to do something to deal with it.

My family shouldn't have to put up with me. They're good people, solid, happy. Sometimes when I'm with them I think I'm on television.

The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. —NDT

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

We often confuse what we wish for with what is.

People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

Is it fair to have given us the memory of what was and the desire of what could be when we must suffer what is?

You can twist perception, reality won't budge

You can twist perception reality won"t budge you can raise objection I won2t be judge and jury

was the deep, cold distinction between fantasy and reality: No consequences.

For the message of television as metaphor is not only that all the world is a stage but that the stage is located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

the world we live in is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact, whether actual or imagined, that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world that would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction. We believe because there is no reason not to believe.

We believe there are certain things people "have," certain things people "do," and even certain things people "are." These beliefs do not necessarily reflect the structure of reality they simply reflect an habitual way of talking about reality.

I suspect, for example, that the dishonor that now shrouds Richard Nixon results not from the fact that he lied but that on television he looked like a liar. Which, if true, should bring no comfort to anyone, not even veteran Nixon-haters. For the alternative possibilities are that one may look like a liar but be telling the truth; or even worse, look like a truth-teller but in fact be lying. As

the concept of truth is intimately linked to the biases of forms of expression.