Quotes About Reality

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

It is very important for an actor or actress to look around at everything and everyone and never forget about real life.

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

How remorseless life is!

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

We live the given life, and not the planned.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober; not always, but most of the time.

The fact speak for themselves.

I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.

No, no, it was the relationships. That was that group. People believed that Rob and Laura were really married in real life. You know, a lot of people believed that.

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her battles, and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.

Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.

We don't realize how much we create reality through language. If we say that life is hard, it will be hard.

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

You're bound by the frame. You've become so engrossed in the movie of your life that you have forgotten that you're sitting there watching.

Life is a series of dreams, a series of interlocking awarenesses.

It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.