Quotes About Reality

It is rather that I believe in the reality of what's being named more than in the name itself.

It's so unreal and beastly.' 'Murder is beastly. Unfortunately it's not unreal.

Ah," said Dr. Hart, "this is a pet theory of my own. The actual 'he' is known to nobody." "Does the actual 'he' even exist?" Jonathan returned. "May it not be argued that 'he' has no intrinsic reality since different selfs arise out of a conglomeration of selfs to meet different events?

I said 'Brian, no one is going to respect me as a mother after this.' He said, 'oh no, yes they will, this is a movie, don't worry about it.' But they're not.

The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations.

You knew, you knew the Commandments, had learned them out of the missal-thin pages of the green Catechism, where, in a genius move of utter simplicity God had set the high bar for Christianity by saying Love your neighbor like yourself, and you read that and looked over at your neighbor, Patrick Plunkett picking his nose and pressing the pickings on the underside of your desk, and by virtue of nothing more than carnal reality that bar got that much higher.

You can't go encouraging the Vincent Cunninghams of the world because the truth is boys can fall deeper in love than girls, they're a lot bigger and heavier and they can fall much further and harder and when they hit the ground of reality there's just this terrible splosh that some other woman is going to have to come along and try to put back into the bottle.

like all male lovers he had quickly built a rose-coloured version that matched his own hope:

the truth is boys can fall deeper in love than girls, they're a lot bigger and heavier and they can fall much further and harder and when they hit the ground of reality there's just this terrible splosh that some other woman is going to have to come long and try to put back into the bottle.

The fact is, I did not appreciate until much later in my own life what subterfuge and sacrifice it took to be independent and undefeated by the pressures of reality.

Now is now. There is nothing but now... This, right here, is all there is.

John Lennon says that "living is easy with eyes closed." I want to close my eyes. I want to close my eyes so badly.

The only escape I had was watching movies. It was one thing that could take me out of myself - let me forget the world I lived in

Que la vida no es más que una quimera; Una ilusión, un sueño sin orillas, Una pequeña nube pasajera.

Que la vida no es más que una quimera; Una ilusión, un sueño sin orillas, Una pequeña nube pasajera. Vamos

Real life is an overrated idea.

Memory is a lie, a creative act, a flimsy shield against the truth.

I hate the truth!" "You don't need to like it. It's something we live with, like water or light.

the public knew, he thought, his feet in their heavy boots sliding among the syringes, if they knew how some people lived and how they died.

Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

Stop all this talk about monsters, Michele. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

La fantasia è crudele, sia sovrappone alla realtà come carta velina.

En jij? Jij bent de vreemde hier, je blijft hier komen omdat je niet weet waar je anders naartoe moet, dát is de realiteit, verdorie, eindelijk heb je het tegen jezelf gezegd.

La fantasia è crudele, si sovrappone alla realtà come carta velina.