„It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even “realities”; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a “solitary elephant.“

— Emil M. Cioran

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„Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.“
— Linus Torvalds
„What are you trying to do, Kerouac? I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?... Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self ... Take off your coat and crash wits.“
— Jack Kerouac
„Others see their possibility in the reality of you. Your message is your life lived.“
— Neale Donald Walsch
„It’s not possible, and nor should it be possible, to control what anyone thinks about you. Especially if it’s not based in any reality.“
— Tom Hiddleston
„Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.“
— Jodi Picoult
„I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.“
— Dr. Seuss