Multiple Realities Quotes

Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

You will not ever perceive the truth that is reality. There are many realities.

LSD was an incredible experience. Not that I’m recommending it for anybody else; but for me it kind of – it hammered home to me that reality was not a fixed thing. That the reality that we saw about us every day was one reality, and a valid one – but that there were others, different perspectives where different things have meaning that were just as valid. That had a profound effect on me.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.

The whole drift of my education goes to persuade me that the world of our present consciousness is only one out of many worlds of consciousness that exist.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

When I open my eyes in the morning, I am not confronted by a world, but by a million possible worlds.

'Alternative facts' is really one of the better things that's come out in a long time. 'Alternative facts?' It's brilliant! Really? Alternative facts? There are two different realities?

The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this moment. The only reality you can possibly know is the world as you see it at this moment. And the only certainty is that those perceived realities are different. There are as many “real worlds” as there are people!

These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past

I don't think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don't think it's one solid world, but many, thousands upon thousands of them--as many as there are people--because each person perceives the world in his or her own way; each lives in his or her own world. Sometimes they connect, for a moment, or more rarely, for a lifetime, but mostly we are alone, each living in our own world, suffering our small deaths.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

There's no one thing that is true. They're all true.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

Where we live in the world is never one place. Our hearts, those dogged mirrors, keep flashing us moons before we are ready for them.

I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.

There are many realities. There are many versions of what may appear obvious. Whatever appears as the unshakeable truth, its exact opposite may also be true in another context. After all, one's reality is but perception, viewed through various prisms of context.

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.