Quotes About Reality

The thing we call romance is a diversion from something truer, which is life.

The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I am proud of my cake-making image but life is not that perfect. There are socks in my fruit bowl.

It's about thinking that being blonde and slim and perfect will automatically bring you happiness, and then discovering that life is full of as many disappointments as there were before.

Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldnt have to take it out of stories.

People treat life as though it's the dress rehearsal for some big show. It's not. This is it.

Movies and novels, the two things that informed and taught me the most, are forms of escapism. I thought that was how life could look if you wanted it to.

The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind.

Don't make the mistake of believing it's enough to reproduce the realities of life.... The object of art is to give life a shape, and to do it by every conceivable artifice.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

I think Twitter is kind of boring, to be honest. To me, it's not even real life.

Movies like 'The Interview' and 'Team America: World Police' don't often show the realities of life in North Korea and the human rights violations perpetrated by the government there.

You need an entire drama to construct your life around to avoid living it.

This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.