Quotes About Reality

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.

I don't have a life-style, I have a life.

All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.

The best you can hope for in this life is that your delusions are benign and your compulsions have utility.

Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one.

In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned.

There is nothing as unreal as life.

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

When I talk of reality, I am always thinking of essentials. Profundity is not located in some remote, inaccessible region. It is rooted in everyday life.

Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life itself.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.