Quotes About Reality

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art.

Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.

Life just happens. It's what you're believing about life that makes you suffer.

It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.

Life isn't all diamonds and rose... but it should be.

Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place in our actual life than the country in which we happen to be.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

Life is what you allow yourself not to see.

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

I've been wrestling with reality for most of my life. I'm pleased to say I've won.

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.