Quotes About Reality

Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.

Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Confidence is directness and courage in meeting the facts of life.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

Life is not at the mercy of matter.

There is only the actuality of what happens in life. The rest is just a story, no matter who's telling it.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf means who's afraid of the big bad wolf ... who's afraid of living life without false illusions.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

Life at best is bittersweet.