Quotes About Reality

It is the familiar that usually eludes us in life. What is before our nose is what we see last.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.

What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

Life is not what we live; it is what we imagine we are living.

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

Cinema has become my life. I dont mean a parallel world, I mean my life itself. I sometimes have the impression that the daily reality is simply there to provide material for my next film.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

Wake up, Caitlin, Mr. Lensing had said. But what he didn't under­stand was that this dreamland was preferable, walking through this life half-sleeping, everything at arm's length or farther away.

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Everyone thinks their whole life should be at least as much fun as masturbation.

Now is all you ever have. There never is anything else. So, you might as well make the now your friend. Otherwise, you are out of alignment with life itself.

Is the cinema more important than life?

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

You keep learning how to let go and to live the life that you actually have, as opposed to the life you thought you were going to have.

Life is not so much defined by the external situation as it is by the internal one.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.