Reality Quotes

I love the fact that the present is the only real reality we have.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.

Perspective Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.

Nothing is harder to understand than a symbolic work. A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Jazz is the false liquidation of art instead of utopia becoming reality it disappears from the picture.

Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite.

I now inform you that you are too far from reality.

The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.

Whether it manifests as creation or disappears into Oneness of Reality, whether it is experienced as existing and real, or is perceived to be false and nonexistent, illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.