Tom Robbins Quotes

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

I think what happens is when we start to look at the facts, everybody has their impression of what truth is.

Truth I have no trouble with, it's the facts I get all screwed up.

To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality.

So-called "realist" photography does not capture the "what is." Instead, it is preoccupied with what should not be, like the reality of suffering for example.

Reason is the illusion of reality

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

Reality is something the human race doesn't handle very well.

We know nothing accurately in reality, but [only] as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon [the body] and impinge upon it.

For a sorcerer, reality, or the world as we all know it, is only a description.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

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.

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?

Reality is a question of perspective.

Reality itself is too twisted.

Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.

If you scrutinize reality closely enough, if in some way you really, really get to it, it becomes fantastic.