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Quotes About Reality

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.
~ Frederick Lenz
You don't really have a choice. You are alive and you will die.
~ Frederick Lenz
Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.
~ Frederick Lenz
On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.
~ Frederick Lenz
Death is the last fact of which we can be certain.
~ Geraldine Jewsbury
Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.
~ Harold Brodkey
There's death coming up, and you better understand this:some of the wrong people die.Be ready for it.
~ William Goldman
Downy sleep, death's counterfeit.
~ William Shakespeare
Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.
~ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I've always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event." "Why would you ever think that?
~ Grace Draven, Eidolon
You gain inner peace when you become comfortable with the reality of death.
~ Steven Magee
Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.
~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it.It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it.
~ Unknown
How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.
~ Rachel Ward, Numbers
Yes, Max, you are going to die. Just like everybody else.Thank you, Confucious.
~ James Patterson
Would that the dead were not dead! But there is grass that must be eaten, pellets that must be chewed, hraka that must be passed, holes that must be dug, sleep that must be slept.
~ Richard Adams, Watership Down
Can I just say that dying sucks? All that bullshit about seeing the light and having this inner peace, blah, blah, blah. It's crap.
~ Unknown
YOU'RE ONLY PUTTING OFF THE INEVITABLE, he said.That's what being alive is all about.
~ Terry Pratchett, Sourcery
What kind of lifehave you lived, little one, that everything seems to be a question of fair and unfair? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The Death's Field is the mirror which allows us the knowledge of the world we living in.
~ Sorin Cerin
DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death
~ Terry Pratchett, The Truth