Quotes About Reality

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Reality is so flexible these days, it's hard to tell who's disconnected from it and who isn't. You might even say it's a pointless distinction.

Face the facts. Then act on them. It's the only mantra I know, the only doctrine I have to offer you, and it's harder than you'd think, because I swear humans seem hardwired to do anything but. Face the facts. Don't pray, don't wish, don't buy into centuries-old dogma and dead rhetoric. Don't give in to your conditioning or your visions or your fucked-up sense of . . . whatever. Face the facts. Then act. QUELLCRIST

When a man you know to be of sound mind tells you his recently deceased mother has just tried to climb in his bedroom window and eat him, you only have two basic options. You can smell his breath, take his pulse and check his pupils to see if he's ingested anything nasty, or you can believe him.

Sometimes there's nothing worse than the truth. It can be harder and sharper and hurt more than a knife. The truth can clear a room faster than tear gas.

Yes, there are vampires. Try to keep up.

Reality is a two-ton weight strapped to your balls. And they just keep getting heavier.

Perfect. Another B-movie dream sequence to start the day. Why can't I ever win in these things? Instead, it's always some Jacob's Ladder outtake, and I want to talk to the director because the script needs a rewrite.

There's dead and there's Hollywood dead, and those are two very different things. Dead is just dead. In the ground. Pennies on your eyes. A cold slab of meat with no slaw and definitely no dessert.

No one's going to look out for us but us. We're just bugs on God's windshield. You need to get serious and work with me on this or we're both going to end up in Tartarus.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

Next you'll tell me that Mickey Mouse is just a guy in a costume.

The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

What I focus upon becomes reality. I have the power to choose.

Richard Linklater

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

The issue ultimately involved is whether there is a source of truth higher than, and independent of, man; and the answer to the question is decisive for one's view of the nature and destiny of man.

I don't think any of us are prepared for the bitter pill we're sometimes asked to swallow.

That which you believe becomes your world.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?