Rod Serling Quotes

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Reality is a powerful solvent.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

What I want people to consider is that no matter what it is we want to believe, and no matter what story it is we want to jam the world into, the truth is the truth.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

Be willing to face life squarely and get down beneath the surface of life where the verities and realities are to be found.

Let the ugly light of the world in, we are no longer blind.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

All your life, you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye. And when something nudges it into outline, it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?