Quotes About Reality

And what do the poets have to say about it? — They only lie!

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

When consciousness is dissociated, you may find yourself feeling as if you or the world around you isn't fully real. This is most often a reaction to severe stress and trauma. The main difference between these two conditions is that depersonalization relates to your experience of yourself as a person, whereas derealization relates to your perception of the environment as amplified below.

Connecting to our own pain and the unique reality of our lives is a large part of the journey to spiritual maturity.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

You can only live in a world of make-believe for so long, before reality comes calling.

Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.

Sometimes you have to distort reality, to warp it back into normalcy. - Jason Culverhouse

Love thrives in the presence of commitment. So don't waste years of your life dragging on a relationship that exist only in your imagination.

Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

The problem, as we've learned over time, is that the further away you are from the fruit, the lower it looks. Once you get up close, you see it's quite a bit higher than you thought. We assume that picking it will be easy only because we've never tried to do it before.

Promises are easy and cheap to make, actual work is hard and expensive.

The quickest way to disappointment is to set unreasonable expectations.

The real world isn't a place, it's an excuse.

Trabajar sin un plan puede dar miedo. Pero seguir a pies juntillas un plan que nada tiene que ver con la realidad da aún más miedo.

All software has bugs – it's just a fact of life. You

estimates that stretch weeks, months, and years into the future are fantasies.

When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.

That an entire industry could float in a mist of illusion and false confidence is depressing but true, and better to learn earlier than later.

it's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.

I'd learned, though, that life isn't a movie. Though it's nice to believe in white-hatted heroes and black-hatted villains, people are a lot more complex than that.

It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary.

Sometimes there are truths in fiction. In fantasy. Sometimes made-up stories tell us more about who we are than reality.

scanning the selection of movies, but suddenly they all seem fake and horrible and awful—full of false promises and bullshit happy endings.