Reality Quotes

"To the Lighthouse was then an evocation of childhood; it was also an inquisition into the nature of reality." "Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man" "I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way." "You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what’s happening here" "The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is" "Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others." "Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners." "Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. " "There is no reality except in action" "The idea that complex systems with skin in the game are antifragile is crucial to building a sound view of reality" "Belief creates the actual fact" "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." "As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be you can't see how it is." "No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth" "When people think too highly of you, you have the responsibility to calm down and be yourself." "A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities" "In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood." "The ego refuses to be distressed by the provocations of reality, to let itself be compelled to suffer." "Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope." "Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."