Quotes about Reality

We compare our behind-the-scenes with other people's highlight reels.

A lie believed as truth will affect you as if it were true.

There's a tradition in war writing that the veteran goes over and sees the truth of war and comes back. And I'm skeptical of that.

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

most people unconsciously dream themselves out of their goals. They dream so far past their current reality—or what's currently possible—that they end up abandoning their goals and damaging their own self-esteem.

The most important endeavors require a risk," I tell her. It's the hardest piece of reality to accept. Striking off into the unknown is terrifying, but if we don't begin the journey, we'll never know where it could lead.

Just because we're not always happy with what's true doesn't mean we shouldn't know it. It's how we learn. It's how we do better in the future. Hopefully, anyway.

You can dress a toad in lace, but the minute you let it go, it'll still poop on your porch.

Truth is, instead of fixing everything, the Arcadia made everything real. Camellia's gone. Lark and Gabion are far away. Queenie's buried in a pauper's grave, and Briny's heart went there with her. He's lost his mind to whiskey, and he doesn't want to come back. Not even for me. Not even for Fern. We're not enough.

She'd noticed immediately that I understood the lure of a good story. Sometimes a world that doesn't exist is the only escape from the one that does.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.