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Quotes About Reality

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
~ Aleister Crowley
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
~ Bill Gates
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
~ Marcus Aurelius
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Seeing, looking at what others cannot bear to see is what my life is all about.
~ Don McCullin
Life is not fair, it never was and it is now and it won't ever be. Do not fall into the trap. The entitlement trap, of feeling like you're a victim. You are not.
~ Matthew McConaughey
If you ever expect life to be fair, you are in for a shocking disappointment. Life is what it is. Fair is something we made up.
~ Michael Treanor
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
~ Caryl Churchill
The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
~ James A. Michener
Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.
~ Albert Einstein
Everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you.
~ Ashton Kutcher
I have gradually confused photography with life.
~ Jerry Uelsmann
Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
~ Anthony de Mello
Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.
~ Kofi Annan
The most difficult lie I have ever contended with is this: life is a story about me.
~ Donald Miller
It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.
~ Ernest Becker
There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!
~ Carl Rogers
Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.
~ Esther Hicks
Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life."
~ Tara Brach
Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?
~ Barbet Schroeder
If people tell you that you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe them. Real Life is found only in the present.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Life, what is it but a dream?
~ Lewis Carroll