Quotes About Reality

Everybody wants to lie to himself, pretending that there's something else besides only the normal life you're living in.

Life is not like a novel, but a novel can be like life. The best ones always are.

Life is so unlike theory.

What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

Life is real only then, when "I am".

I'm shy. People get confused. They think as an actor you can get up and be confident on the screen. Why aren't you like this in normal life? Why can't you act in your social life? 'Because I can't!'

Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses us and on occasion shuts our mouths.

What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

The life that the dawn brings us is the only life we have. Life is in the here and now, not in the there and afterwards.

If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true.

See your reality as a life that has many tracks or potentials that you call "the future."

Aspirin will not bring dead hookers back to life.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it's many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.