Quotes About Reality

It was simply the unalterable truth: unfortunate but upon us; and so it had to be borne.

If there's one thing Lucille hates, it's how science has to rain on whimsy's parade:

No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.

Sometimes I think that love is one big fairy tale. I wonder if people who say they are in love, if – really – they've just talked themselves into it. They want it so badly, they kind of make it happen. They fake it until they start believing their own story. Maybe that's just sour grapes or something. Maybe because it doesn't happen to me, I don't want to think it happens to anyone else.

In reality there is no normal. Normal is something people have agreed to invent so we have something to compare ourselves to. Normal should be the least of your worries.

Sheriff: There's nothing about her on Facebook, either. If she's not on Facebook, I have to wonder if people are just making her up, if she even exists Seth: I'm not on Facebook Sheriff: I rest my case

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)

What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?

When I was younger, I had wanted to be at the very center of all the action in New York, but I slowly came to realize that there is no one center. The center is everywhere - wherever people are living out their lives. It's a city with a million centers.

He was playing a character I had invented, which is somewhat telling. In desperate love, it's always like this, isn't it? In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place...

I only meant that there was a place within my imagination so fathomlessly deep that the light of the real world could never touch it.

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot.

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment.

U svijetu nereda, nesre?a i prijevare katkad je mogu?e vjerovati samo ljepoti. Samo je umjetni?ka izvrsnost nepotkupljiva. Užitku nije mogu?e spustiti cijenu. A obrok je katkad jedina stvarna valuta.

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding that they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

If you're going to live your life based on delusions (and you are, because we all do), then why not at least select a delusion that is helpful?

We don't have time for perfect. In any event, perfection is unachievable.

We don't have time for perfect.

La experiencia me ha enseñado a ser cauta a la hora de conocer a mis héroes en persona; puede ser muy decepcionante

Beauty is not required. Beauty is accuracy's distraction.

We don't have time for perfect.