Quotes About Reality

Life gets in the way of dreams. Dreams get in the way of life. That's the way it's always been.

Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me. Of course it's not!

And anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.

God, real people are so disappointing. I'm sure she would have done it better in the box-set version.

Io non mi sono mai sentita vecchia. Nessuno si sente vecchio. [...] Io mi sono sempre sentita così: una ragazza di vent'anni, per tutta la vita. L'aspetto esteriore è solo... un involucro»

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, Is this my life, remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, Is this my life, remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

But sometimes that's because reality is inferior to what life should be like.

No one's life has to be perfect... Don't put so much pressure on yourself... Whoever started the rumor that life has to be perfect is a very wicked person, if you ask me. Of course it's not!

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too.

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, Is this my life, remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: they have their owncrappyy truths, too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think: is this my life... ? you should remember: it's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

But isn't that what every young couple thinks, and then suddenly, boom, they're old and bitter and not looking at each other properly?

I know that things are still uncertain; I know that reality hasn't gone away. There'll be explanations and recriminations and messiness. But right now I'm entwined with a man I think I might love. And I haven't married the man I know I don't love. And from where I'm looking that's pretty good going, for now. At

anyway, who defines "real life"? Who says "real life" is property ladders and hideous pearl earrings? "Shit-boring tedious life," more like.

I think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: they have their own crappy truths, too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think: Is this my life …? you should remember: it's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

think I've finally worked out how to feel good about life. Every time you see someone's bright-and-shiny, remember: They have their own crappy truths too. Of course they do. And every time you see your own crappy truth and feel despair and think, Is this my life, remember: It's not. Everyone's got a bright-and-shiny, even if it's hard to find sometimes.

You're dreaming, girl, lost in a moving dream.

Wise words; but O, when wisdom brings no profit, To be wise is to suffer.

For now I feel All we who live are but an empty show And idle pageant of a shadowy dream.

so I believed—what a handsome prince you raised— under the skin, what sickness to the core.

How terrible—to see the truth when the truth is only pain to him who sees! I knew it well, but I put it from my mind, else I never would have come.

Vossa existência, frágeis mortais, é aos meus olhos menos que nada. Felicidade só conheceis imaginada; vossa ilusão logo é seguida pela desdita.

There are two ways to be fooled. One is too believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.