Quotes About Reality

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.

Out in the street again, Harriet attempted philosophy: 'Wherever one is,' she said, 'the only thing certain is that nothing is certain.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

We may gain some inkling of what God is if we attempt by means of every sensation to reach the reality of each creature, not giving up until we are alive to what transcends it … Clement of Alexandria Miscellanies,

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.… And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

Let's not kid ourselves, pain always exists, and there's no shilly-shallying that it is probably the essential part of life.…

For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show.

However, this Land of Lotus Blossoms does not exist outside us.

Is this love reality Or a dream? I cannot know, When both reality and dreams Exist without truly existing.

Everything in your world is created by what you think.

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

È la vita. A volte credi che due occhi ti guardino e invece non ti vedono neanche. A volte credi d'aver trovato qualcuno che cercavi e invece non hai trovato nessuno. Succede. E se non succede è un miracolo. Ma i miracoli non durano mai

Objectivity does not exist. The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.

These romantic visions of the peasantry were constantly undone by contact with reality, often with devastating consequences for their bearers. The populists, who invested much of themselves in their conception of the peasants, suffered the most in this respect, since the disintegration of that conception threatened to undermine not only their radical beliefs but also their own self-identity.

Excuses are used to justify leaving the scene of truth without changing.

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it's mismanaged memory.

Truth is an acquired taste.

Leaders dig into their business to learn painful realities rather than peaceful illusion.

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

Don't mortgage tomorrow's possibilities by settling for today's reality.