Quotes about Reality

People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

What is true of one man, said the judge, is true of many.

I dont know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

I know they's a lots of things in a family history that just plain aint so. Any family. The stories get passed on and the truth gets passed over. As the saying goes.

All reality is loss and all loss is eternal. There is no other kind.

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.

There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

You go back home and everthing you wished was different is still the same and everthing you wished was the same is different.

Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.

That a drug can restructure the world into something like an objective reality is a claim with as little validity as the objective reality itself. I think what I said at the time was that I had no more reason to place my confidence in a drugged state of mind than in a sober one.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.