Charlie Brooker Quotes

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

You’re here,” I continued. “At least you look as if you’re here. But maybe you aren’t. Maybe it’s just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you’ve hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys. Do you think we can go on like this forever?

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

Illusion never changed into something real.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Nothing in this world is real

Nothing is real.

That which is cannot be true.

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

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Very few of us are what we seem.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

There is no doubt whatsoever that the universe is the merest illusion.

We're all living in some state of illusion, even if modestly.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.

Only love is real...everything else is illusion

What are you, Rose Hathaway? Are you real? You're a dream within a dream. I'm afraid touching you will make me wake up. You'll disappear.

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa