Quotes about Reality

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time.

The love is what's left at the end because it's the bedrock, fundamental reality that gets hidden all the time, but never really goes away.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.

Nothing exists. All is a dream. God—man—the world—the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars—a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space—and you…. And you are not you—you have no body, no blood, no bones, you are but a thought.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.

I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.