Quotes About Reality

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

Stories are a different kind of true.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.

It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed.

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life.

Life is hard, and then you die.

Life goes on within you and without you

Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

Why do we hide all the bullshit? Life is life. Why hide it?

Life is fired at us point blank.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Realizing that I can't control or change the impermanence of things in human life is daunting.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

As to the rest, I am no more guilty of imitating 'real life' than'real life' is responsible for plagiarizing me.

The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.