Quotes tagged ‘Reality’

“There’s a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality—knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don’t know how many chapters are left in your book—is by living in denial.”

— Eddie Vedder, huffingtonpost.com

“The universe is a thought of God.”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“I know Bill Clinton said the price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change, but I don’t think Bill Clinton ever lost sleep figuring out how to qualify for a mortgage as a single woman in a town where a car parking space can go for a hundred grand.”

— Laura Jane Williams, redonline.co.uk

“I have never yet met a successful person that hasn’t had to overcome either a little or a lot of adversity in his or her life. Overnight success is much more of a myth than reality.”

— Harvey Mackay, harveymackay.com

“Dolores: What is real? Bernard: That which is irreplacable.”

— Dolores Abernathy, Bernard Lowe, imdb.com

“But the real world doesn't go away. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just because it's not happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening. And at some point you have to choose; black or white, pick a side. You can try to hide from it. You can say, oh I don't take sides, but at some poi…”

— Trevor Noah, amazon.com

“You see that building? It was once the seat of power for the entire world. It stood tall in a shining city on a hill where so-called enlightened men promised their citizens a bright future. A future where impossible dreams could become reality. We live in a husk of a world left to us by these enligh…”

— Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Michael R. Perry, Quinn, Marton Csokas, imdb.com

“What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“The way it is, is the way it is. We gotta deal with what’s in front of us.”

— Joss Whedon, Malcolm Reynolds, Nathan Fillion, imdb.com

“Many ‘myths’ are based on truth.”

— Arthur Heinemann, D. C. Fontana, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com

“Violence in reality is quite different from theory.”

— Oliver Crawford, David Gerrold, Margaret Armen, Spock, Leonard Nimoy, imdb.com

“I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there. I was afraid, for all of my life, right up until I knew it was ending. That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it's also the only place where you can…”

— Ernest Cline, amazon.com

“You know your shopper isn't your friend, personal trainer doesn't think you're actually making progress, and all the charities you give money to don't actually honor you when they honor you.”

— Adam R. Perlman, Lara Axelrod, Malin Akerman, imdb.com

“Sometimes reality has a way of sneaking up and biting us in the ass.”

— Zoanne Clack, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“I like nightmares. When I wake up, they leave me deeply valuing my reality.”

— Willie Reale, Alice O'Neill, Taylor Mason, Asia Kate Dillon, imdb.com

“Reality is like the serious white clown. It seems earnest and logical. Circumspect and prudent. But in the final analysis it is reality that looks the fool, the object of derision. Its partner, Chaplin, guileless and childlike, comes out on top. He laughs carelessly without even noticing that his la…”

— Sergei Eisenstein, ajc.com

“The dream reveals the reality, which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life—the terror of art.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“It's one thing to question your mind; it's another to question your eyes and ears. But, then again, isn't it all the same? Our senses just mediocre inputs to our brain? Sure, we rely on them, trust they accurately portray the real world around us, but what if the haunting truth is they can't? That w…”

— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com

“You think it's this easy to see inside what's real, and also be bipolar with delusional ideation. There's no pill for my situation sweetie-pop, so yeah the big mouths are onto me. Next question!”

— Adam Glass, Frank Devereaux, Kevin R. McNally, imdb.com

“Isn’t this enough? Just this world? Just this beautiful, complex wonderfully unfathomable world? How does it so fail to hold our attention that we have to diminish it with the invention of cheap, man-made myths and monsters?”

— Tim Minchin, goodreads.com