Quotes About Reality

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.

I used to believe in freedom of speech until I had to pay my first phone bill.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people are going to be very disappointed that they are not it.

Life isn't a Burger King. You can't always have it your way.

'True Life: I Have A Hot Mom' is easily my favorite True Life.

You know you''re getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.

Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now, I have six children and no theories.

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.

That's okay, honey. I used to believe in things too.

Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium.

to know reality (or things as they are than to have not to know and to have few illusions as possible— train my will now

It was more fun dreaming about being a movie star than actually being one.

our planet is going to hell. But it's all OK, because it helps the growth figures.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?