Quotes About Reality

the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

we live in a different world, you and me - governed by different laws...

the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...

there is a myth called objective reality - we think an impersonal world exists apart from us - it doesn't - it needs us to be ...

when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...

I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

For most people, media portrayals of the positive and satisfying sexual life of singles are disconnected with reality as they know it.

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

That is the true crime that fairy tales commit - making people like me think that we counted in this world. I was neither hot nor in shape. I was just a normal boy in an extraordinary world, and stories like that, no matter how misleading and destructive, would always appeal to people like me.

Women tug their men toward the world the TV lays before them, in the belief that it exists.

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in the back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will

Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will... but then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn't perfect. You can't get all the way inside someone else... But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine tht kills the fascists.

If ANYTHING is assumed to be other than bullshit, then there is something wrong with the perspective.

In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that we can understand from our experience of the everyday world...all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.

true story of quantum mechanics, a truth far stranger than any fiction.

Nothing is real unless it is observed

there is no underlying reality to the world. "Reality," in the everyday sense, is not a good way to think about the behavior of the fundamental particles that make up the universe; yet at the same time those particles seem to be inseparably connected into some invisible whole, each aware of what happens to the others.

It isn't just that Bohr's atom with its electron "orbits" is a false picture; all pictures are false, and there is no physical analogy we can make to understand what goes on inside atoms. Atoms behave like atoms, nothing else.