Quotes About Reality

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion.

You have to look life straight in the eye. De-mystify your world. Can you really afford to believe magic is for real? Not when time is concerned.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Life is never what it seems - and that's the great thing about it

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

I wanted to let the world know that no one had a perfect life, that even the people who seemed to have it all had their secrets.

Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise.

Joe Budden TV is life through the eyes of Joe Budden. You've gotta go check it out - it's pretty fun.

I find that the only way to get through life is to picture myself in an entirely disconnected reality.

We need only in cold blood to act as if the thing in question were real and it will infallibly end by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real.

The part of life which we really live is short.

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement.

Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Life is bigger than our explanations of it. To be in touch with life, go beyond your explanations.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

We have revolutionary thought whenever the feeling "life is a dream" becomes geared to an impulse to awaken from it.

The skeptic has no illusions about life, nor a vain belief in the promise of immortality. Since this life here and now is all we can know, our most reasonable option is to live it fully.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.