Reality Quotes

A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it’s over. Be pleasant but don’t smile too much; be sad but don’t overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don’t let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Our perception could either be our path to nirvana or an invisible cage that bottles us up.

~ Pawan Mishra

Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs—and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again.

~ Pawan Mishra

The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere - you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes.

~ Corey Taylor

Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing.

~ Pawan Mishra

Sometimes love them more than you, but just make sure you love yourself too.

~ Dominic Riccitello

He was good and then really good and then bad and then really bad, but since he was good I got lost in the thought that I could fix it.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Life is not fair, get used to it

~ Bill Gates

What one exorcises in this [imagery] way at little cost, and for the price of a few tears, will never in effect be reproduced

~ Jean Baudrillard

To dissimulate is to pretend not to have what one has. To simulate is to feign to have what one doesn't have.

~ Jean Baudrillard

What happens when one has striven long and hard to develop a working view of the world, a seemingly useful, workable map, and then is confronted with new information suggesting that the view is wrong and the map needs to be largely redrawn? The painful effort required seems frightening, almost overwhelming. What we do more often than not, and usually unconsciously, is to ignore the new information. Often this act of ignoring is much more than passive. We may denounce the new information as false, dangerous, heretical, the work of the devil. We may actually crusade against it, and even attempt to manipulate the world so as to make it conform to our view of reality. Rather than try to change the map, an individual may try to destroy the new reality.

~ M. Scott Peck

Relationships are the flavors of life.

~ Pawan Mishra

One truism lay underneath every choice and word: change what people think and you change the world.

~ Michael R. Fletcher

As an evil cultist, I make an excellent evil cultist. Only I'm stupid, and not evil. And I worship nothing, really.

~ Will Advise

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

~ Jean Baudrillard

If they keep coming back to you, it isn't love. It is because you made yourself and easy option. The moment the thing they truly want becomes less difficult to obtain is when you will realize that your worth was on sale.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Today abstraction is no longer that of the map, the double, the mirror, or the concept. Simulation is no longer that of a territory, a referential being, or a substance. It is the generation by models of a real without origin or reality: a hyperreal.

~ Jean Baudrillard

Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men call dream. And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth.

~ C.s. Lewis

I subscribe to the anthropic principle: there are an infinite number of infinite universes, each with slightly different physical laws. Only some of them have the right parameters, such as gravity the right strength to allow stars to be born and live long. Where the charge on the electron is right to allow complex molecules to form, etc.Ours is one that allows intelligent life to form, so that the universe may wonder at itself. We *are* the universe, in wonder of itself. -- Google: Anthropic principle

~ William Donelson

Nobody is going to save you but yourself and the ‘best’ and only way to do so isthrough action.

~ Oli Anderson

Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

If humans created it then it is the product of a choice that somebody made. And if it was chosen it can be changed.

~ Oli Anderson

What is your big project in the New Year? You don’t have one? No dream, no reality! Get a big dream for yourself now to get a big reality tomorrow!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

But that wouldn't be honest. That wouldn't be real. That would give you the idea that a life is a simple thing to tell, that it's obvious where to start--BIRTH--and even more obvious where to stop--DEATH. Fade from black to black. I won't have it. I won't be one of the hundreds telling you that being alive flows like a story you write consciously, deliberately, full of linear narrative, foreshadowing, repetition, motifs. The emotional beats come down where they should, last as long as they should, end when they should, and that 'should' come from somewhere real and natural, not from the tyranny of the theatre, the utter hegemony of fiction. Why, isn't living easy? Isn't it grand? As easy as reading aloud.No.If I slice it all up and stitch it back together, you might not understand what I've been trying to say all my life: that any story is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. I can't. I can't tell you that lie...If I fixed it so time goes the way you expect, you might come away thinking I know what the hell I'm doing.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

MARIEAs the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after another.WOYZECKI saw him.MARIEYou can see all sorts of things if you've got two cyes and aren't blind, and the sun is shining.

~ Georg Büchner

There are two types of 'busy': 1)Constantly distracting yourself from what is true. 2) Constantly working to create something real.

~ Oli Anderson

If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we canlearn from it then we will never be truly defeated.

~ Oli Anderson

images precede the real, making and shaping it into what we come to name and know as the real, producing it, fabricating it, into the worlds we come to inhabit.

~ Brad Evans

Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.

~ Mamur Mustapha

No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?

~ Rebecca Goldstein

Be Mindful of your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your reality.

~ Kemi Sogunle

Building a good relationship with ourselves is essential for inner fulfilment, especially when we run into a large reality gap.

~ Russ Harris

To lose a problem, do not oppose, let go of any need to control, perhaps it's all an illusion we project, more like a game we play than real?

~ Jay Woodman

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Then focus on thruth, not logic. Stop trying to figure out why and look for what is.

~ Kristi Ann Hunter

I believe happiness is a chemical imbalance––it's a silly thing to strive for. But, satisfaction––if you seek satisfaction you can succeed.

~ Lydia Lunch

Life is for those that deserve it. Those kings amongst men who can climb out of barrels and will dare to break through glass walls and to transcend all of this whatever it is, these eyes to the ground, this pretence, acting only as is expected and never as is intended. We have been told what is acceptable in what situation and so we take heed. This is not living. In the real world, in nature, there is no need to pretend. There is no place for it.

~ Oli Anderson

But I didnt do anything wrong.. Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

~ Holly Black

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the right ones? Or, to tip it another way: how can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet--for me, anyway--all that's worth living for lies in that charm?

~ Donna Tartt