Quotes About Reality

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

All there is in your life is the eternal now moment - and your experience of this moment is created by the programming in your head.

Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

A photograph has picked up a fact of life, and that fact will live forever.

I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

Bury the dead. Say Robinson Crusoe was true to life. Well then Friday buried him. Every Friday buries a Thursday if you come to look at it.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.

Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.

The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.