Quotes About Reality

Did you know that half of all people are below average?

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it...

If it were not for the truth of fiction there would not be any truth at all.

Importance of dreams is not in using - importance is in having. You think dreams must mean something real, that fantasy bad for the soul. All wrong, all wrong. Fantasy just as important as reality. Reality is feeding body - finding food for keep alive. Fantasy feeds spirit. Soul need food same as body, and dreams, philosophies, stories, creations, all food for spirit, see?

Folks love fantasy. Beasts the shit outta reality and day of the week.

That's what you get when a bunch of fucks in tights try to save the goddamn day.

Well if I ever stick a cape on an' start usin' ordinary human bein's to wipe me arse with, you'll know you were right to worry, won't you?

I walked away in the manner that we always do from horror: believing that refusal to accept reality might just negate it, knowing that it walks one constant, smirking step behind us. I walked until the vast, black truth of what had happened overwhelmed me, becoming part of my existence, pivotal-- - Ian Cowley, Crossed: Badlands #1

It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a thin watercolor. Softer, somehow, even with their electric light and engines and everything. I guess it was because there was hardly any magic.

One thing I did learn early on was not to put all my trust in magic. If it can be done without magic, it's better done without magic.

Facts are hard things - and either we deal with the facts, or the facts will deal with us

home prices don't rise as fast or as much as Americans think, and even when they do, such levels are rarely sustainable (as we have seen in recent years). So there is often no financial justification for buying more house than you can afford in the hope that price hikes will reward you later.

We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.

Eventually, however, we all descend from the clouds and plant our feet on earth again. Our eyes are opened, and we see the warts of the other person.

Before marriage, we are carried along by the force of the in-love obsession. After marriage, we revert to being the people we were before we "fell in love.

studying scores of couples, she concluded that the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years. If it is a secretive love affair, it may last a little longer. Eventually, however, we all descend from the clouds and plant our feet on earth again. Our eyes are opened, and we see the warts of the other person. Her endearing "quirks" are now merely annoying. His sharp sense of humor now wounds. Those little bumps we overlooked when we were in love now become huge mountains.

I would like to make three other observations. First, they illustrate clearly that what we do for each other before marriage is no indication of what we will do after marriage.

First, acknowledge the reality of anger. In the course of marriage, each of us will experience anger from time to time. Some of this anger will be definitive, spurred by wrong action on the part of the spouse. Some of this anger also will be distorted, stimulated by a misunderstanding of what happened. We will each experience a fair share of both types of anger. This is a part of being human and living life with each other.

The euphoria of the "in-love" state gives us the illusion that we have an intimate relationship.

Once the experience of falling in love has run its natural course (remember, the average in-love experience lasts two years), we will return to the world of reality and begin to assert ourselves.

they begin the hard work of learning to love each other without the euphoria of the "in love" obsession.

But all of these things now exist. (What? Hogwarts isn't real?)

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

We have grown away from knowledge, away from knowing what something is really like, toward knowing only what somebody else says it is like. There seems to be a desire to ignore the truth in favor of drama.