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Quotes About Reality

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one.
~ Max Tegmark
Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.
~ Michael Shermer
Maybe the greatest madness is to see life as it is rather than what it could be.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
How can a motion picture reflect real life when it is made by people who are living artificial lives?
~ Miriam Hopkins
The facts of life are conservative.
~ Mona Charen
Coen brothers movies are not always what life looks like but it's definitely what life feels like.
~ Oscar Isaac
I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.
~ R. L. Stine
Life's not all beer and skittles
~ Radclyffe Hall
We can't tell our life from our wish
~ Randall Jarrell
You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.
~ Rob Lowe
The people is always expressive of the truth. The life of a people cannot be a lie.
~ Alexander Herzen
this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
~ Anne Sexton
If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.
~ Bertolt Brecht
Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.
~ Byron Katie
Unfortunately for novelists, real life is getting way too funny and far-fetched.
~ Carl Hiaasen
What I like about The Sims is that I don't have a normal life at all, so I play this game where these people have these really boring, mundane lives. It's fun.
~ Gerard Way
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
~ Gian Carlo Menotti
Thrillers are like life, more like life than you are.
~ Graham Greene
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
~ Harry Allen Overstreet
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
~ Jim Bishop
In life in general, you're never bulletproof, about the time you start thinking that, I always tell people, the karma train will come run you over.
~ Kevin Harvick
It is possible to live only as long as life intoxicates us; once we are sober we cannot help seeing that it is all a delusion, a stupid delusion.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But maybe every life looked wonderful if all you saw was the photo albums.
~ Liane Moriarty
The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge