Life is a joke, even though it is not always funny.

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

From dreams reality is born.

Until now, I’ve been writing about “now” as if it were literally an instant of time, but of course human faculties are not infinitely precise. It is simplistic to suppose that physical events and mental...

Reality is coincidence of hallucinations.

When you mix with the wrong energy, there’s bound to be an explosion. Pay attention and switch lanes when the signal changes. What’s really real, is ultimately revealed.

It may sound like a mess, but sometimes mess can be okay, mess can be fine. Sometimes mess is just another word for living your life as real you, not someone else’s version of what...

For most people, blaming others is a subconscious mechanism for avoiding accountability. In reality, the only thing in your way is YOU.

I spoke of the tragic illusion of perpetuity, but, no, my friends, it is a comic one. The ludicrous plot in which we are all trapped. The ancient Greeks referred to plot as mythos, attributing...

Jump in the urinal and stand on your head. I’m the one that’s alive. You’re all dead.

We keep hoping in God while reality keeps knocking at our door.

And when I fall in love,” I began, “I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while...

While what I write is always largely consistent with the records that remain I freely admit that where historical fact proves a barrier to invention, I simply move a detail a little one way or...

Good point. But I actually am one of the few special ones”—and this is the problem.

Sometimes I feel like I’m a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire.

I am not a human being enjoying a spiritual life, I am a spiritual being enjoying a human life.

The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.

We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause – for what they call success. Those are words that do not correspond to reality. They are conventions, things that are...

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...

You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges...

Everything’s different from us. That’s why everything exists.

I’m leaning against the bookshelves when it occurs to me that one thing here is real-the books. I reach behind me and let my fingers trail over the rough leather of their antique spines, then...

Dominant negativity cheats reality of its mutual positives.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.

…reality is a system, completely ordered and fully intelligible, with which thought in its advance is more and more identifying itself. We may look at the growth of knowledge … as an attempt by our...

Let Art be your weapon, and you would never be defeated.

Then he realized: ‘I, indeed, am this creation; for I have poured it forth from myself.’ In that way he became this creation. And verily, he who knows this becomes in this creation a creator.

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this...

The greatest dream that we can have is to forget that we are dreaming.

Should’ assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.

No two person, ever read the same book.

Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric isreality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where Iwas on the other side. So that’s why I don’t want to...

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not necessarily the most useful thing to do. The Greeks themselves...

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world...

Outside Styx’s apartment was not the first time Rochester and I had met, or would it be the last. We first encountered each other at Haworth House in Yorkshire when my mind was young and...

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.

Before a dream can mature and manifest itself as real, a lot of loaded efforts come into play! You are the pivot on which those loads must be turned!

It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, ‘Is that an Emperor at all?

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Dreaming is beautiful but actions makes it a reality that unfolds its true beauty.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into his mind: ‘It doesn’t really happen. We imagine it. It is hallucination.’ He pushed the thought under instantly. The...

Instead of letting our emotions run amok, we can use our minds as tools to build or create realities that serve us better

We can’t always have our druthers.

The three rules of journalism are 1. Mislead, 2. Misinform, and 3. Misdirect. The news serves to sever you from reality and keep you in Fantasy Land.