Quotes About Reality

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.

If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.

Have a vision and then create your own reality. Otherwise, someone else may create it for you.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

Only reality interests me now and I know I could spend the rest of my life in copying a chair.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

Life don't owe you nothing.

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.

I'd rather go along with this sense of illusion that I'm a neutral beast going along through life doing everything that's preordained.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

Sometimes I feel like the Tom Hanks character in Big. But my life is not a movie. I never have to go back to Coney Island to find the fortune-teller machine so I have to grow up again.

The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.

One wants to be able to experience being other people, remaking a reality, remaking a life, remaking a certain world.