Quotes About Reality

SU CUERPO ES LA REALIDAD VIVIENTE DE TODO LO QUE USTED ES, Y TODO LO QUE SIENTE LE SUCEDE A USTED POR ENTERO, Y NO SOLAMENTE A SU CEREBRO

Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.

Stories are consoling, fiction is one of the consolation prizes for having lived in the world.

There are dead stars that still shine because their light is trapped in time. Where do I stand in this light, which does not strictly exist?

Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species.

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. ? Don DeLillo, Americana (ACTES SUD; 0 edition, August 10, 1993)

Facts are lonely things

He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

It's not that people change. People don't change. They merely hide things from you, and lie.

We'd insist that all truth was relative, that there was no reality without signifiers, that there was no there there, that nothing, in fact, really existed.

They see an unremittingly sad film, and they think it's depressing, whereas we're fucking enthralled, because the catharsis for us is in witnessing great art, seeing the undiluted truth, in the shared recognition that life is pain.

Wherever you go you will find people lying to you, and as your awareness grows, you will notice that you also lie to yourself. Do not expect people to tell you the truth because they also lie to themselves. You have to trust yourself and choose to believe or not to believe what someone says to you.

Some may not believe my account; they may think it was some kind of wish fulfillment during a point of severe trauma. I don't have to defend my experience. I know what happened to me. For those of us whose faith is in the reality of heaven, no amount of evidence is necessary.

Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be.

Dope is supposed to be bad, but in a bad world it's good

As for corruption, who's more corrupt—the seller or the buyer? And how corrupt does a society have to be when its citizens need to get high to escape their reality, at the cost of bloodshed and suffering of their neighbors?

The good things in this world aren't done by saints. They're done by compromised people doing the best they can.

mirrors reveal so little

There comes a time in a man's life, he figured, the infamous midlife crisis, when a guy has to face the reality that what he has is all he's going to get, and he needs to find his peace and his happiness in his life as it is.

He feels ashamed, wretched, coming to the realization that when push comes to shove, when the terrible reality is at hand, he really would have them do it to someone else rather than himself

He prays at the altar of dead false gods. Tries to hold up an image of what he thinks used to be but in fact didn't exist except maybe in the movies. The fuckin' guy wants so bad to be something that never was, even the ghost image of which is now fading into black.

The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.