Quotes About Reality

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

The most painful thing in life is to wake up from a dream and find no way out. Dreamers are fortunate people. If no way out can be seen, the important thing is not to awaken the sleepers.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

To me a photograph is a page from life, and that being the case, it must be real.

Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible only through the portal of the present moment.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

..when one has no real life, one lives by mirages. It's still better than nothing.

Life's not fair, get over it!

...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Well here you are, there it is, THIS is what it's all about.

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.

Let go of what you think life should be so you can experience the life you have.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Life is nasty, brutish, and short

I think the whole mission of being here on Earth is to accept what you have, and my journey was to accept my own life and not pretend anything else. I think that's what we all struggle with.

When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?

All you see in your world is the outcome of your idea about it.

I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin.

Every life has dark tracts and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

Every (stressful thought) is a variation on a single theme: This shouldn't be happening. I shouldn't be having this experience. God is unjust. Life isn't fair.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.