Quotes About Reality

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it's difficult to conceive that there's a great imaginary life in which you can participate.

I have become worldly-wise and mature after participating in 'Bigg Boss.'

When you live closely with people, you don't see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don't really exist anymore for you.

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.

Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

Actually, I am a golfer. That is my real occupation. I never was an actor. Ask anybody, particularly the critics.

We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.

Most of the time, we fantasise about our love lives and partners, but don't put in enough work enough to fulfil them.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Now where there are no parts, there neither extension, nor shape, nor divisibility is possible. And these monads are the true atoms of nature and, in a word, the elements of things.

My buddies are like, 'You live the most amazing life!' Well, I'm working like a dog. I come home most nights and pass out on the couch.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

It's not easy to craft a novel that gradually erodes the reader's comprehension of the world, of reality and identity and the passage of time.

Religion legitimates so effectively because it relates the precarious reality constructions of empirical societies with the ultimate reality.

The world of everyday life is not only taken for granted as reality by the ordinary members of society in the subjectively meaningful conduct of their lives. It is a world that originates in their thoughts and actions, and is maintained as real by these.

Love, then, is the binding power of being, on every level of reality. In fact, love is being and reality: love turning toward love in love with itself. Everything is on this track, and everything being/consciousness/bliss, whether it "knows" itself as such or not. But the soul which awakens and finds itself in the dance: that soul has won the bet.

The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end

escape is the byword—forwards, backwards, or sideways—into alcohol, busyness, good works, passivity, fantasy, or even madness. For the reality of the present and the immediate future seem even more frightening today

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Science is about truth,

his mind wandered ceaselessly, hopping from memory to make-believe and then to his grim reality in a painful loop.