Quotes About Reality

on living and working in Los Angeles] Los Angeles is like a desert. The only thing that exists is the work you do. You have that sense of living a precarious existence.

We have to meet the world as if our ideas about it are real, but holding the knowledge that they are only ideas; to act as if we know, but tolerate the truth of not knowing.

Because the thing was, she guessed, you always thought you had time—time to fix the relationships that had broken down; to do all the things you thought you'd get around to; to finish everything, tie it up with a neat bow and that was it. But life wasn't like that at all.

I just . . . I built him up in my mind so much." "Too much reading." "In my head, he was this kind of lost romantic hero." "He can't get lost, he drives a train.

Look for something real.' Syrinda had said. But how could she, when she didn't even know what that was?

I never understand," he said, shaking his head, "why anyone would go to the trouble of making up new people in this world when there's already billions of the buggers I don't give a shit about.

The GOLD in Golden years was identified by the sight impaired. It is actually Rust!!

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.

When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really truly gone?

And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.

That's life. Things don't always work out.

Good," he says, and he takes my hand, and he closes my locker door, and he walks me to class like a real boyfriend, like we're really in love. How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.

Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.

It's a known fact in life that you can't have everything

It's a known fact that in life, you can't have everything.

You can chalk up things to coincide so many times before you have to face the truth.

When a person you love dies, it doesn't feel real. It's like it's happening to someone else. It's someone else's life. I've never been good with the abstract. What does it mean when someone is really and truly gone?

Disappointment is good for kids; it prepares them for the real world, where it's not all about them and their feelings.

The most believable lies are the ones that are atleast a little bit true.

Margot doesn't see the point in wondering. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if.

Why can't you just let it go? Why do you have to hold on to all the shitty stuff that's ever happened to you?" "Because I live in reality, unlike you. You'd rather live in a fantasy world than see people for who they really are.

This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

Sometimes it's like people are a million times more beautiful to you in your mind. It's like you see them through a special lens - but maybe if it's how you see them, that's how they really are." -Belly