Quotes About Reality

How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?

The image you see of me out in public is really different from who I am in real life.

Life is a business that does not cover the costs.

Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.

I play so many villains and strange, troubled people. I don't have that kind of life. I live in the country. I've been married nearly 50 years. I have a cat.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.

Being a star doesn't last. That's not what life should be about. It's a complete illusion that really has nothing to do with you. For me, finding out about life is the most important thing.

By letting go of what you thought was going to happen in your life, you can enjoy what is actually happening.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit; Trust on, and think tomorrow will repay. Tomorrow's falser than the former day.

There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.