Reality Loss Quotes

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.

I can't say I know how to change the society, but I share the feeling that this society is full of technology which depersonalizes people, which seems to drain a sense of reality from our lives. It's full of a lot of other things too.

Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.

The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

These guys make a lot of money. Of course it's hard and dangerous work, but Sherpas are the rich people in Nepal. If you make so much money, you can somehow lose reality.

That's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.

When real is gone, then there is no longer a litmus test for that which deviates from it. It's all real because it's all 'real.'

Most of us live in a world that has ceased to exist.

Doesn't the world inside a black and white photograph seem more real? It's because the real world is losing its color

... imagination robs us in great measure of reality...

I've always been profoundly ambivalent about fame. I think it just eats the reality out of you and it can be intoxicating because I like some of it.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I'm writing a novel about two actresses who go to New York, because that's what I know about. One has lost touch with reality, disappears and is picked up by a man.

Virtuality will destroy reality.

When the real is no longer what it used to be, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Once you start losing reality, when you start losing reality with yourself, sometimes people just get dizzy.

The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.

All gradients of reality, all existential distinctions, have finally been annihilated.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

People have fallen in love with words and lost the world. It’s time to regain it.