One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.

Reality isn’t the most pleasant of atmospheres, Lieutenant. But we like to think we’re engineered for it. It’s a pretty fine piece of engineering, the kind an engineer can respect. Drag in an obsession and...

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

At one time, you think you’re invincible. This just can’t happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you’ve got only one life.

Don’t let other people’s opinions distort your reality. Be true to yourself. Be bold in pursuing your dreams. Be unapologetically you!

Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to...

We’re all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected....

Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled...

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

Cucullus non facit monachum; that’s as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

I have recently been able to see the new world – the quiet, the tranquility and the freedom it will bring with it. This is very comforting knowledge for me because I already know that...

I’m not sure. But – unless I’m struggling with the darkness within – I like to sustain the illusion that death is actually much further from me than it really is.

The lamentable expression: ‘But it was only a dream”, the increasing use of which – among others in the domain of the cinema – has contributed not a little to encourage such hypocrisy, has for...

If you want to know the reality, just subtract the things that you think are real from your mind. Now the remaining is the reality.

There is no reality — only our own order imposed on everything.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

They were both from the real world, their own distinct ones, but I was somewhere in limbo. Set apart, I didn’t know how to let either of them in.

How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely.

The biggest crime in Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’ is imposing your own dream upon someone else’s reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn’t see Lolita’s reality. He doesn’t see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita...

Your biggest dreams can become reality, not by brute-forcing the end-goal, but breaking it down into smaller, more manageable parts. If your goal takes years, breaking it down into months and days will let you...

Life as we know it is our perception of reality.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

I still can’t believe it . . . him comin’ here everyday, nobody realizin’. Still, that’s life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

There is a fascination here that holds rich and poor, strong and weak captive,not with chains and fetters but by an almost touchable solace…

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

He gets away with it because he’s strong.”This is the story of mankind.”I thought you were going to be a priest at one point.”Yes. But then I read the newspaper.

The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.

In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze is confined to the cave wall, upon which shadows of the...

Promise creates a multitude of heartbreaks.

There’s nowhere else to escape to … Except in a wooden box, that is.

Some have gotten very angry, however, … That’s the reality.

People want us, or want us dead, because of what we are, not who we are. It’s hard.

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can’t even count up to three.

We live in a world of contrast and it’s sad we are among people who can’t seem to grasp the differences surrounding them.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

The way individuals live together. The truth of each individual is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety of mankind and of human qualities is always seen through a prisim, where its...

Be the best you even when it’s not the best day to be you

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

All stories are born out of illusion, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth telling.

For all the pain I saw at Paterson, it is nothing compared to the pain that people inflict upon each other in the real world. All I can think of now is that it is...

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

I’m A Speaker, Your A Listener.

To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.

Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.(“Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume”)

As a child, I wanted to marry a farmer, but no doubt the reality would have been very different to the idyll in my head.

Dont forget , There is greatness in all of us and no one is greater than the rest of us.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

You can’t be in my world…You live in this one.

Perception is reality.