Diane Setterfield Quotes

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.

What is my truth can not be your truth.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Your version of the truth is all that matters.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

No two people have the same reality

It is no longer a matter of expressing reality, but of expressing what one feels about reality.

Memory has its own special kind. It selects, eliminates, alters, exaggerates, minimizes, glorifies, and vilifies also; but in the end it creates its own reality, its heterogeneous but usually coherent version of events; and no sane human being ever trusts someone else's version more than his own.

Perception is reality.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

I see the world through my eyes. It's sometimes a strange world.

Everyone's going to have their own experience and perspective on everything.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.