Quotes About Reality

Well, there are more job prospects after 'Love Island'.

The prosperity gospel, in its various forms, has always been with us and always will. But that reality is no less problematic for being inescapable.

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality.

What is protecting me is that it is not a finality being an actress. I really think we tend to idealize this job a lot. When you're an actress and you're really famous, it means people believe you are on top of the world - and I think that's not true.

I am protecting my personal life because for me, that's my sanctity. When I am done with shooting and home, that's my reality check.

The British public are not children who need protection from the truth.

Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action.

My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don't make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I'm aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

Nothing like falling in love with a dead actress to prove your sanity.

I learned through his death that, hey, life is short. You think you're going to live to be 75 years of age, and Brian proved that you're not going to live that long.

All of which was OK, as that proved then, I certainly wouldn't contradict it as a necessary sense of things.

There was a perception that reality-show people are just mere personalities, that they don't have real talent, and I worked real hard to change peoples' minds, one show at a time, and proved a lot of people wrong. I'm proud I was the first to do that for 'Idol' on Broadway!

In my opinion, it has never been proven that food even has calories. When I bite into a hamburger, I see pickle and ketchup and bun and meat, but if there's a calorie in there, it must be hidden.

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

In the era of President Trump, we've gone from believing things that are 'true enough' to believing things that aren't true at all, and can be demonstrably proven so.

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never.

One who is about to die is really dead already and being so, exist no longer

There liveth not in my life any more The hope that others have. Nor will I tell The lie to mine own heart, that aught is well Or shall be well…. Yet, O, to dream were sweet!

Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.