Quotes About Reality

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about.

I don't have expectations. Expectations in your life just lead to giant disappointments.

My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd.

No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.

Don't get a movie confused with real life. I'm a well-rounded human being like everyone else.

I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.

In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

I'm not always sincere. One can't be in this world, you know.

Your children will smash your understanding, knowledge and reality. You will be better off. Then they will leave. You'll miss them forever.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.

Life, in a sense, is living and surviving. And all that makes for living and surviving is good. He who follows the fact cannot go astray, while he who has no reverence for the fact wanders afar.

The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.