Quotes About Reality

Take Landon McKellips. He always plays the part of a womanizing playboy, but for all I know, he's completely different from that in real life.' 'No,' Slade said. 'He's actually like that.

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

There are split seconds in the morning between waking and sleep when you know nothing. Not just things missing like where or who you are, but nothing. The fact of being alive has no substance. No awareness of skin and bone, the trap inside the skull. For these split seconds you hover in the sky like Icarus. Then you remember

It's the physical reality, flesh and blood and bone, of this person with whom I spent the first nine months of my existence, the two of us pressed together in the chrysalis of Mama's womb more closely, for longer, than we would ever touch anyone else.

Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die. Irish proverb

If I was mad, it was in this, that I had believed such a possession would protect me from the assassin.

I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

So remember those who win the game Lose the love they sought to gain In debitures of quality and dubious integrity Their small-town eyes will gape at you In dull surprise when payment due Exceeds accounts received at seventeen

Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same fucking day, man.

Sure one could argue the naturalist's case that the mind experiences an external reality in which it participates. But how can this account really satisfy us, Olga? One could equally well argue that all experiences is highly subjective, that the only thing we really have is the image, the smell, the taste, and all of our assertions about the universe are constructions of the human mind.

Our propositions are true if they have the same structure as the world. Truth is a correspondence through structure.

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

Truth, of itself, does not kill.

Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

Lies and partial truths complicate life."

Life is a rare fantasy that can be made a reality by being objective."

Dirty. Dead mice and all. And they call it a restaurant. Bah." "You are still young," Grijpstra said. "The world is held together by dirt. Don't think of it or you'll never eat again.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

You go through life thinking that there's a secret to life. And the secret to life is there is no secret to life.

His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is not light but energy. A person will never see his own face, just its reflection, or a photograph of it. Brain waves are more active during dreams than waking life. Roses don't smell beautiful; they smell like ripe fruit, which is good for survival, and so they're defined as beautiful in our aesthetic beliefs.

The alleged benefits of diversity seem illusory to the people who actually experience it.

kaunein onni on illuusio onnesta.

Unelmissa me elämme elämämme etukäteen, kun sitten näemme kaiken valheeksi, emme uskalla kumota sitä.

The good, the bad, and the ugly basically sums up my sex life. Except that I've never had the good.