Judith Rossner Quotes

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

Truth is always a delusion.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

Words, as is well known, are the greatest foes of reality.

Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.

Perception's not reality.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.

What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are.

When you stop inventing reality then you see things as they really are.

I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Reality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable, the truth is fantastic; it's in what you think is a distorting mirror that you see the truth.

Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.