Quotes About Reality

Our life is a creation of our mind.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

I was mentioning with the digital camera, maybe this new fashion of filmmaking gives a closer look of what life may be like. But it's still nothing but a copy.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

The actuality of thought is life.

Life is the farce we are all forced to endure.

Without stories we would go mad. Life would lose its moorings or lose its orientations. even in silence we are living our stories

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

An area of life that does not have hope is under a lie.

Life is uncertain; death is certain.

Since no one can ever know for certain whether or not his own view of life is the correct one, it is absolutely impossible for him to know if someone else's is the wrong one.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.