Reality Quotes

It's a very strange reality when you can't trust yourself. There's no foundation for anything. The faith I might have had in normal things like gravity or logic or love is gone because my mind might not be reading them correctly. You can't possibly know what it means to doubt everything. To walk into a room full of people and pretend that it's empty because you're not actually sure if it is or not.To never feel completely alone even when you are.

~ Julia Walton

All suffer and none should have to. But why not? If suffering makes life seem more real or more abstract, both circumstances are infinitely more bearable than the disturbing reality of mundane work-to-live-then-die-bored life.

~ Moonshine Noire

Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you're blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone

~ David Banner

By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention color; but in reality atoms and void.

~ Democritus

But when you’re a kid, it isn’t chaos. It’s just a heartbeat. Your house isn’t floating through space, it sits on the ground. Once you get old enough you start to see that color is just paint and doors are just wood. Then, at some point, that feeling of home vanishes entirely. And… that’s what I fear. That nothing will ever make me feel like I’m safe again. That once you leave home, you never get it back.

~ Ryan Galloway

They call what we went through a problem, an experience, a dream… but we know that it’s much more than that.

~ Emory R. Frie

Maybe Jess was caught up with these ridiculous, impossible ideas because it meant she never had to try for something real.

~ C.b. Lee

What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore. Those stories you heard? About going to a wonderful place called 'heaven' where there is no pain or death and you live forever in a state of perpetual happiness? Also total bullshit. Just like all that God stuff. There's no evidence of a heaven and there never was. We made that up too. Wishful thinking. So now you have to live the rest of your life knowing you're going to die someday and disappear forever.Sorry.

~ Ernest Cline

Relationship can end never really began.

~ James Hew

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour.

~ Blaise Pascal

I live by four simple words. Love. Being. Here. Now.

~ Todd Crawshaw

It from bit. It’s an unorthodox theory, which starts with the assumption that information is at the root of all existence. When we look at the moon, a galaxy, or an atom, their essence, he claims, is in the information stored within them. But this information sprang into existence when the universe observed itself. He draws a circular diagram, representing the history of the universe. At the beginning of the universe, it sprang into being because it was observed. This means that “it” (matter in the universe) sprang into existence when information (“bit”) of the universe was observed. He calls this the “participatory universe”—the idea that the universe adapts to us in the same way that we adapt to the universe, that our very presence makes the universe possible.

~ Michio Kaku

Life is all about Expectations verses Reality, be in reality.

~ Bharath Mamidoju

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality.

~ Amit Ray

...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me.

~ Charles Bukowski

To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Bohr and Heisenberg assumed that after a measurement is made by an outside observer, the wave function magically “collapses,” and the electron falls into a definitestate—that is, after looking at the tree, we see that it is truly standing. In other words, the process of observation determines the final state of the electron. Observation is vital to existence.

~ Michio Kaku

Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which “collapses” the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumesa definite reality.

~ Michio Kaku

But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to observe me to collapse my wave function.

~ Michio Kaku

For me as a human being, I do not know any sense in which I could claim that the universe is here in the absence of observers. We are together, the universe and us. The moment you say that the universe exists without any observers, I cannot make any sense out of that. I cannot imagine a consistent theory of everything that ignores consciousness. A recording device cannot play the role of an observer, because who will read what is written on this recording device. In order for us to see that something happens, and say to one another that something happens, you need to have a universe, you need to have a recording device, and you need to have us . . . In the absence of observers, our universe is dead.

~ Andrei Linde

I know nothing I’m doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I’m just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I’m doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look out the window and know what I’m seeing, and I know some people I like to be with, and I like what I do all day long, and maybe that’s all that realness is, anyway

~ Robert Penn Warren

Self respect and reality is tough rival when it comes to balance it honestly.

~ Ankit Samrat

To be ignorant of the sacrifices of others that yielded the blessings I enjoy leaves me exchanging the reality of 'blessing' for the assumption of 'entitlement.' And once that happens, I will forfeit the reality of the former which will destroy the assumption of the latter. And in what terribly dark place will that now leave me?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

~ C.s. Lewis

You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.

~ J.k. Rowling

We see what we want to see, what we expect to see, instead of what's really there. I don't think we do it on purpose, most of the time. We just get kind of stuck. We start thinking that the way things are is the way they'll always be. But that's not true. It can't be true. Because the world is never still.

~ Lauren Miller

You're a shit cake with cum for whipped cream and dynamite for candles.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Enchanted islands are hard to understand,' he said. 'I've always thought that. It worried me even as a child. The trouble is that you can never be sure where the enchantment begins and where it ends.

~ Robert Aickman

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.

~ Clarice Lispector

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.

~ Clarice Lispector

Sky-bound was the mind, Earth-bound the body rests

~ Johannes Kepler

The subconscious mind does not care about what we consciously call reality.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

~ Terry Pratchett

Reality—there’s nothing but horror in that.

~ A.l. Kennedy

Maybe the world isn't enough, or maybe the distinction between the world and fiction is not so clear. Fiction is made from the stuff of the world, after all, which includes dreams and wishes and fantasies and memory. And it is never really made alone, but from the material between and among us: language.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Did your parents care that he was white?They never met him. I couldn't imagine taking him to meet my dad. Watching them talk to each other would've been tortuous. Also, I never wanted him to see how small our apartment was. In the end, I guess I really didn't want him to know me.With Daniel, it's different somehow. I want him to see all of me.

~ Nicola Yoon

In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately.

~ Ernst Jentsch

Fiction isn't bad. It is vital. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can't play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules, and we can't enjoy the benefits of markets and courts without similar make-believe stories. But the stories are just tools. They should not become our goals or yardsticks. When we forget that they are mere fiction, we lose touch with reality.

~ Yuval Noah Harari

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you’d like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

~ Oli Anderson

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

~ Oli Anderson