Quotes About Reality

It's like Kilroy only talking about Big Brother and there's no racism allowed.

In this sunshine," wrote Max Plowman in his memoir of the war, "it seems impossible to believe that at any minute we in this trench, and they in that, may be blown to bits by shells fired from guns at invisible distances by hearty fellows who would be quite ready to stand you a drink if you met them face to face.

A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

Aun cuando la aceptación de todas las orientaciones (retornar a un pasado previo, prolongar la situación actual, o acelerar la llegada del futuro) parezca implicar cierto cinismo o resignación hacia el mundo, la realidad es diferente.

If it's not true for you, it's not true.

Truth is what is true for you.

I believed the stories he told were true for him,

The profession of photography is anti-elitist. There are very few professions where even when you are at the top, a household name, you might still be standing on a draughty street corner with your feet getting wet and cold, waiting for something to happen. At that moment you are on the same level as a homeless person, standing on a street corner, begging. In most professions, the higher up you go, the more likely you are to go around in a chauffeur-driven car.

The only thing that we can say is really real, truly true, is pure experience. What is real is the flow, the constant but ever-changing pageant comprised of minds and things.

Your vision makes your world. If you see the world as a happy, loving place, then that's where you're going to live. But if you see the world as a messed up, negative, and dangerous place, then that will be your reality.

Patriarchy denies reality, that Woman is primary for she creates man.

Everyone thinks it goes smoothly in everyone else's house, and theirs is the only place that has problems. I'll let you in on a secret about teaching: there is no place in the world where it rolls along smoothly without problems. Only in articles and books can that happen.

El silencio nos ayuda a bucear por debajo de la superficialidad de nuestras construcciones mentales hasta el lugar de nuestro corazón, que resulta más profundo en cuanto a su realidad, que cualquier cosa que la mente pueda captar o expresar en palabras.

Most people do not see things as they are; rather, they see things as they are. Richard Rohr

The struggle is real because the danger is real. It is the danger of living the whole of our life as one long defense against the reality of our condition.

Personally, I think the 'Christian family' should be called a Christian fantasy.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn't now, then where did it go ?

The more stars in your itinerary, the less likely you are to find the real life of another country. I'd forgotten how money becomes a barrier insulating you from ordinary life.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.

In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation marks, it seems that the only object that can claim total honesty is fiction itself.

The truth hurts for a little while. A lie hurts forever.

Anytime things were going right for you, the future of the world seemed bright. Anytime they were going wrong, the imminent collapse of civilization was at hand. Can't you see how thoroughly you projected your own subjective vision of reality on the world?

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day?