Quotes About Reality

The effect of life in society is to complicate and confuse our existence, making us forget who we really are by causing us to become obsessed with what we are not.

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

Human life is thus only an endless illusion. Men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does when we are gone. Society is based on mutual hypocrisy.

The paperless society is about as plausible as the paperless bathroom.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

As we grow old, we become aware that death is drawing near; his shadow falls across our path; the realities of life seem less crude than of yore, they touch our senses less intimately, and they lose much of their poignancy.

No nos queda más remedio que clasificar la utopía de un mundo sin violencia como una de las más hermosas, pero, por desgracia

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que .

Don Quijote no fue conquistador, fue conquistado. Pero en su derrota, tal como nos enseñó Cervantes, demostró que 'la única cosa que nos queda frente a esa ineludible derrota que se llama vida es intentar comprenderla'.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

Humans... You want a nice warm hug from a cold, indifferent universe.

But all memories, no matter how distant, no matter how distorted, have the shadow of truth underneath. Even the most imperfect memory is a window—

I have this strange feeling none of this is really happening. Like I'm standing far away from myself. Like nothing is real. Have you ever had a feeling like that?