Quotes About Reality

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

people systematically overestimate both the pain they will experience as a consequence of anticipated losses and the joy they will garner from anticipated gains.

In reality, the events that we label as outcomes are never really endpoints. Instead, they are artificially imposed milestones, just as the ending of a movie is really an artificial end to what in reality would be an ongoing story. And depending on where we choose to impose an "end" to a process, we may infer very different lessons from the outcome.

Matters not how you smile, fact is that you did.

Maybe it's that time of the month because those super cramps can really turn a supermodel into a super bitch.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.

You think you know someone. But mostly you just know what you want to know.

The truest experience of life is when we dream awake.

Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream, you wake: you live, you die.

It's just life. You can't beat life.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absolute truths.

All fear is imaginary, reality is its antidote.

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

We are all dying of life.

Living and dreaming are two different things - but you can't do one without the other.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips

If you are in the job for glamour, you're in for the shock of your life. The media is a huge shark pool.