Quotes About Reality

The truth is overrated." Vick let the purse drop into his hand. "An actor should know that.

That's the trouble with running. Wherever you run to, that's where you are.

Fencing is one thing,' he said. 'Actual violence quite another. Few of us are made for it. It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

One cannot eliminate unhappiness any more than one can eliminate darkness.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse." —Joseph Brodsky

If you build your boat from cheese, d'you see, you can't wail at the heavens when it sinks, for cheese is known to be a poor material for boat-building.

It's a newsbill. They tell you what's happening.' Orso thought about that. 'Or they tell you what to think about what's happening.' He thought more. 'Or the really successful ones just confirm what you already think about what's happening.

This wasn't fantasies, it was life. And life had a habit of kicking her in the cunt. But

So often in life, moments that are long anticipated turn out to be profound disappointments.

He was not sure what he had been expecting. Outstanding beauty, or stunning grace, or something that struck him instantly to the heart. But Ankran's family were an ordinary-looking pair. Most people are, of course, to those that don't know them.

Hundreds of men, struggling and dying by the hellish glare of burning torches, of burning missiles, of burning houses. Friendly could hardly believe it was real. It all looked, false, fake, a model staged for a lurid painting. "The breach at Visserine." he whispered to himself, framing the scene with his hands and imagining it hanging on some rich man's wall.

La gente prefiere creer que el mundo está lleno de maldad antes que de mala suerte, egoísmo y estupidez.

Everything simple. No grinding worry, no chafing frustration, no wasted days slipping past. Only the beautiful, terrible now.

Live long enough, you see everything ruined.

As with so many things in life, heroic last stands are a great deal more appealing in concept than in reality.

Bad news is never a surprise. Just a disappointment.

fine lies beat tedious truths every time,

If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken. I chose glory and success. The box did not contain what was written on the lid." "The

I don't see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don't like it, see something else

People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

Your trouble is, you've got yourself an idea about how life should be, but it's just not how life IS.

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become . . . at least they have one.' Glokta

High ideals and reality are like oil and water," muttered Vick. "They don't mix well.

Well." Glokta looked towards the summer revellers. So near to them, yet somehow in a different world. "I have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.