Quotes About Reality

The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination.

The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.

A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.

Actors rarely stay in touch with directors after they've filmed together. We go back to real life.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

Everyone likes the obscene; that is real life.

After a good-looking boy gives you rabies two, three times, you'll settle down and marry somebody less exciting for the rest of your life

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!

its very nature, scientific investigation takes for granted such assumptions as that: there is a physical world existing independently of our minds; this world is characterized by various objective patterns and regularities; our senses are at least partially reliable sources of information about this world; there are objective laws of logic and mathematics that apply to the objective world outside our minds;

Hence there must not only be something by virtue of which the thing you've drawn is triangular, but also something by virtue of which it is triangular in precisely the imperfect way that it is. There must also be something by virtue of which triangularity exists in this particular point in time and space.

I'd be a liar if I said I had a normal family.

One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.

The producers broke one of their own rules: Star Trek has become pop culture, but there is never pop culture within Star Trek, because it punctures the reality.

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, 'You're out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?' But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

Courage, Love, Illusion (or dream, if you will) -- he who possesses all three, or two, or at least one of these things wins whatever there is to win; those who lack all three are the failures.

For all the emphasis we place on our multicultural cities, they epitomise our oligarchic reality.

Tell it like it never really was and maybe we'll see it like it is.

Io sono come il sonnambulo che cammina lungo il crinale di un tetto a passi sicuri e con calma lui cammina senza vedere senza udire Ma qualcuno lo assale con urla via via sempre più forti si risveglia e piomba giù dal tetto al di fuori dei suoi sogni Non fatemi questo non questo io serenamente cammino dentro ai sogni che sono la mia vita soltanto così posso vivere