Quotes About Reality

I figured any nightmare would be better than my reality.

Son, things have never been like how you think they used to be.

walked back into the house to feed myself and my illusions.

Zsa Zsa was charismatic in the banal and voracious way that reality stars like Kim Kardashian are charismatic now.

What's real? I ain't interested in what's real. I'm interested in how things should be.

surrounded by five hundred years of convenient lies.

the truth is, the very act of adoption is built upon loss. For the birth parents, the loss of their biological offspring, the relationship that could have been, a very part of themselves. For the adoptive parents, the loss of giving birth to a biological child, the child whose face will never mirror theirs. And for the adopted child, the loss of the birth parents, the earliest experience of belonging and acceptance. To deny adoption loss is to deny the emotional reality of everyone involved.

they look at adoption through rose-colored glasses, trying to make it a win/win situation for unplanned pregnancies and infertility, never giving a thought about what effect adoption has on the child.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

And if wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in childhood.

Not to mention, we're using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasn't supposed to tell her that? (Syn) I'm bait? (Kiara) No, you're not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

Nick's right, you are psychotic. (Talon) The correct term is sociopathic and yes, I am. But at least I have no delusions about myself. (Zarek) Meaning? (Talon) Take your meaning wherever you can find it. (Zarek)

Okay, I'm dreaming. Hallucinating. Brought on by stress. I had a hard day today and this is my mind trying to protect itself from…from stuff. Lots of stuff. (Geary) (Arik, Trieg, and ZT stare at Geary.) Oh, like I'm any less sane than the three of you just because I talk to myself. (Geary)

Screw reality. It don't feed my dog. It don't make my Porsche payments. It don't get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)

That is the beauty of memory, isn't it? Our reality is always clouded by our perceptions of truth. (Mnimi)

What fools these mortals be. (Acheron)

There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all animals with only survival instincts.

This can't be happening. It's just not possible. (Cassandra) Oh, well, let's not have reality intrude now, shall we? I mean, hey, you're a mythological being descended from mythological beings and you're in the house of an immortal guardian no human can remember five minutes after they leave his presence. Who's to say that you can't get pregnant in a dream by him? What? We're jumping into the realm of reality now? (Katra)

People make their own reality, goddess. We hate and we love for reasons that are known only to us.

You know, Vik, you're amazingly human at times. (Alix) I know. But I wonder if the feelings I have are real or just electrical stimulations in my cortex that simulate human emotion. I wish I knew if they were real or imagined. (Vik) And that makes you completely human, sweetie. We all have those doubts. (Alix)

It's not fair! (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.