Quotes About Reality

Veel van onze angsten berusten op pure inbeelding. Verander je inbeelding en je zult minder angst hebben.

Bedrijfsresultaten - die steeds een selectief beeld van de werkelijkheid bieden - woren elektronisch geregistreerd, gegroepeerd en verwerkt, nagenoeg zonder dat er nog eigenlijk denkwerk aan te pas komt.

It could be that you have the wrong hands, or the wrong face. It is not your imagination. You do. You have. It is emerging as the condition of our age. Every day there are new ways of being wrong. Explosions are common, but that is not it. We are waking up to it. We are opening our wrong eyes.

Far from being opposed to the truth, fiction is only its by-product.

Radical constructivism, thus, is radical because it breaks with convention and develops a theory of knowledge in which knowledge does not reflect an 'objective' ontological reality.

The truth is overrated.

There is seldom any rational reason for having regreats about past deeds or events. Because the past does not exist in any other way than in your memory. When you recognise this lack of reality, you can be calm.

Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody—there's a lot of people.

Everyone dreams, but not all equally. Those who dream at night in the misty recesses of their mind, often wake to find that it was unfulfilled passion: but day dreamers are dangerous folk, for they may open their eyes, to make dreams possible.

Well, truth is often hard to hear, but truth is freeing. And regarding cancer, the truth is this: money—rather than what's best for the patient—rules. And that's the truth.

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

You know, I am so sick of cuttin' on my television and everyone on it is obsessed with livin' forever. Well, I have a news flash: Ain't none of us gettin' out of her alive.

The truth about people had not much to do with what they said about themselves, or what others said about them.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening so you might as well.

Do you think I'm only here when you look at me?

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

She often told herself that story, easing herself into sleep, drifting off as she patched together the ghostly memory of someone in whose real existence she hardly believed any more.

Truly humble people are grounded in reality; they neither preen under illusions of greatness nor suffer agonies of self-hatred.

Life meant reducing expectations and making-do with what one had. What was the point of boo-hooing, as she saw it, when "no man is a prince, except in the imagination"? It was the same thing Marcy had said: "No one is as good as you think they are.

There was only today to throw yourself into without thinking about tomorrow, let alone forever. To keep you from thinking, there was liquor, an ocean's worth at least, all the usual vices and plenty of rope to hang yourself with. Love is a beautiful liar.

Men hear what they like and invent the rest.

Dreams can tell us a lot of things," I go on. "They're a kind of map of the inner life. Sometimes thinking of who we might someday be is the only way we can get through the reality of who we actually are.

You on the train and me here and everything emptier now you're gone. Tell me, are you real?