Gao Xingjian 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.

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.

Perception is reality.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

We all exist in our own personal reality of craziness.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

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

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

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

Reality is a question of perspective.

...[E]very person perceives the world differently. So essentially, there are six billion human versions of reality on this planet, each perceiving its own truth.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

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

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not.

We both know that, my friend, but a man's perception soon becomes his reality.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

The dream of life is really an illusion, and everybody lives in the reality he or she creates - a virtual reality that is only true for the one who creates it.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.