Quotes About Reality

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Now life is imitating art.

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly vaporized in shock.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe; and re-runs all become our history.

This must be what it means to be a ghost, being certain that life exists, because your four senses say so, and yet unable to see it.

It is in [the] process of making something... that the creator contacts a concrete reality outside his subjective life and moves into the realm of the transcendent.

All life stinks and you must embrace that with compassion.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

My life is not balanced and not everything is perfect all the time.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

Life isn't a book. There's no guarantee of a happy ending.

Every day is a lie. But you are dying. That is not a lie.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.

An ability to look into the confusing mess of life and see things for what they are.

This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.