Quotes About Reality

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

The universe is in change, life is an opinion.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.

Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

You can evade life, but you can not evade Death.

The solution of the problem of life is life itself. Life is not attained by reason and analysis but first of all by living.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

One of the strangest things about life is that it will chug on, blind and oblivious, even as your private world - your little carved-out sphere - is twisting and morphing, even breaking apart.

There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion"--I forget where.

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage.