Quotes About Reality

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Euphemism is a human device to conceal the horrors of reality.

All people are sad clowns. That's the key to comedy - and it's a buffer against reality.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.

The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.

We need realism to deal with reality.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

Reality has a well-known liberal bias.

We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

I accept reality and dare not question it.

Hope is the denial of reality.

Reality is not always probable, or likely.

The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

Realism is not a matter of any fidelity to an empirical reality, but of the discursive conventions by which and for which a sense of reality is constructed.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.