Quotes About Reality

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

I find nothing so singular to life as that everything appears to lose its substance the instant one actually grapples with it.

Our treasures trifles seem, and all our life is dreaming, and the dreams themselves are dreams.

Everyday life is interesting enough, whether it be in an office or being ignored on the set of something supposedly more glamorous.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

The basic problem, actually, is how to get rid of the idea that we're going to get rid of our problems. Only then can we relate directly with the real issues of our life.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

It's quite an amazing experience to see the same life with and without the thought. We come to see how crazy a thought can make us when we believe it.

The trouble with real life is, there's no reset button.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.

The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.