Quotes About Reality

We all live in darkness, kept apart from each other by walls easily crossed but full of fake doors . . . --from the poem Epilogue (David Unger translation)

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.

Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers.

I have lived long enough to realize that there is no such thing as perfect love. That's too long.

That bloody guide lies all the time. It's more lies than truth.' Ford spouted the standard line: 'The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred per cent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable

But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here.

What are you? Who are you? I thought you shared Artemis's memories. How can you be so stupid? Orion was unperturbed. I share everything. Memories and movies are as real as each other to me. You, Peter Pan, the Loch Ness Monster, me. It's all real, maybe.

The Hitchhiker's Guide is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.

Time travel causes chaos, and chaos doesn't follow your rules. That's why it's called chaos, dummy. - Professor Charles Smart

Memories and movies are as real as each other to me. You, Peter Pan, the Loch Ness monster, me. It's all real. Maybe.

Anything can be real. Every imaginable thing is happening somewhere along the dimensional axis. These things happen a billion times over with exactly the same outcome and no one learns anything. Whatever a person can think, imagine, wish for, or believe has already come to pass. Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers. Think of something crazy, or if that's too taxing just throw random adjectives and nouns together.

It would not be like a movie. It would be like life in Ireland: cold and hard and with no happy ending.

Não procures que tudo quanto acontece aconteça como desejas, antes deseja que tudo aconteça como de facto acontece. Desse modo serás feliz.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

It is unrealistc to expect people to see you as you see yourself.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.

Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.

Remind thyself that he whom thou lovest is mortal — that what thou lovest is not thine own; it is given thee for the present, not irrevocably nor for ever, but even as a fig or a bunch of grapes at the appointed season of the year

Circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get.

When then any man assents to that which is false, be assured that he did not intend to assent to it as false, for every soul is unwillingly deprived of the truth, as Plato says; but the falsity seemed to him to be true.

Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. Is