Distinguishing Reality Quotes

It is difficult to separate, at times, the myth from the truth.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.

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.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features inchly. Beard love and dared the cost, The sented spiel reeled me unreal And I found my senses lost.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.

It should be quite clear, then, that there are no criteria to be laid down in general for distinguishing the real from the not real.

The problem is, I can’t tell what’s real anymore, and what’s made up.

If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is valuable when it comes to the real world and the fantasy world. Like, should I invest my time in the ordinary world or the imaginary world?

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?