Quotes About Reality

Because there was a limit to just how much you could lie to yourself.

Pienso que lo más asombroso de llorar es que cuando empiezas, crees que no pararás nunca, pero en realidad no dura ni siquiera la mitad de lo que habías creído.

I'm not trying to make this a downer, understand. I mean, I really do think that love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Life isn't fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

La vie imite l'art, l'art imite la vie; parfois je suis incapable de les distinguer.

This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)

I must know! Get used to disappointment.

But this is life on earth, you can't have everything.

some of the wrong people die. Be ready for it. This isn't Curious George Uses the Potty.

Life is pain," his mother said. "Anybody that says different is selling something.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is the best of all

But I also have to say, for the umpty-umpth time, that life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Truth is terrific, reality is even better, but believability is best of all. Because without it, truth and reality go right out the window….

Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

Not that it matters, but most of what follows is true.

La vida es puro sufrimiento —le decía su madre—. Y quien te diga lo contrario es porque te quiere vender algo.

The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out.

la vida no es justa. Le decimos a nuestros hijos que sí lo es, pero eso es una barbaridad. No sólo es una mentira, sino que es una mentira cruel. La vida no es justa, nunca lo ha sido y nunca lo será.

La vita è dolore» disse sua madre. «Chiunque affermi il contrario cerca certamente di venderti qualcosa».

Life isn't fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

Das Leben ist nicht gerecht, Bill. Wir erzählen unseren Kindern, daß es gerecht ist, aber das ist eine Gemeinheit. Es ist nicht bloß eine Lüge, es ist eine grausame Lüge. Das Leben ist nicht gerecht, ist es nie gewesen und wird es nie sein.‹

Mainline American Protestantism, as is often the case, plodded wearily along as if nothing had changed. Like an aging dowager, living in a decaying mansion on the edge of town, bankrupt and penniless, house decaying around her but acting as if her family still controlled the city, our theologians and church leaders continued to think and act as if we were in charge, as if the old arrangements were still valid.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.