Quotes About Reality

The thing was, being perfect didn't mean anything if it wasn't real.

sometimes lies are more interesting than the truth

you can dream about something for so long, but sometimes reality doesn't exactly live up.

Truth is stranger than fiction, after all.

VERY PRETTY, BUT DEFINITELY NOT LIARS

Well it happened, you know? And There's nothing we can do about it now. You can blame and blame yourself, thinking og thw things you might've done differently, or ask if maybe it was her time, and ask if this has something to do with god, maybe, but sometimes I think things just happen. There's nothing you can do about it-you just gotta deal with it. Sometimes life really sucks. you know? sometimes it just sucks

And sometimes you just don't know what's going on inside of people. People always seem so perfect on the surface. But it's not always the case. Everyone hides things.

Memory was a tricky thing, but reality was even trickier. Once you made up your mind about something, it was hard to comprehend that the truth could be something else

But that perfect little world you thought you were witnessing? It was mostly lies. My smiles and sweetness, my big hugs and happy hashtags: it was all a juicy, duplicitous trick for you to share and discuss and gobble up. And those lies were what destroyed me, plain and simple.

Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

Very often the characters people respond best to have little parts of reality they can relate to.

Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

As a reader you recognise that feeling when you're lost in a book? You know the one - when whatever's going on around you seems less real than what you're reading and all you want to do is keep going deeper into the story whether it's about being halfway up a mountain in Brazil in 1823 of in love with a man you aren't sure you can trust or fighting a war in the last human outpost, somewhere beyond the moon. Well, if you're writing that book it's real for you too.

Sometimes life isn't what we want, it's what we get.

I know a lot of writers, and everyone works differently, but this is something that we truly have in common across all genres - the fiction has to be real inside your head.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

People see what they expect to see.

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

Are we genuinely prepared to say that working in an office building or shopping in a mall is real, while reading Tolstoy is not?

writes Madeleine L'Engle, "in kairos we are completely un-self-conscious and yet paradoxically far more real than we can ever be when we are constantly checking our watches for chronological time."10

Story affirms that not everything in the universe can or must be explained propositionally; the loose ends of story aren't always neatly tied together, because neither are the loose ends of our lives. "Life can bear only so much reality," says poet and pastor Calvin Miller.

For the first time in my existence, I tell the truth, and I am greeted with lack of belief. This is the universe laughing at me.

No amount of careful would have been enough. We have to focus on what we can do, not what we wish we could.