Quotes About Reality

The true heart of all human beings is the lover of what is.

Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth

A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

You never miss what you've never had. I never had any other life. I didn't know any other life.

Why live life from dream to dream, and dread the day when dreaming ends.

Everyone, when you're a teenager and you're growing up, you do feel like your life is dramatic enough to be on a TV screen, but we know that it's not.

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the experience of actual life.

The only certain things in life are death and taxes!

No matter what you think-life goes on and the world still turns and the universe has its own story. The most we can do is plan anyway, but understand, be humbled by things greater than ourselves.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real.

For me, to catch, to celebrate the reality and life and friends and everything around me the very moment it happens - that's what is, that's what I'm possessed by.

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

I have had a dream my whole life... and it was not this good.

If we give up the notion that everybody's life is perfect but ours, we would be a lot happier. Nobody's life is perfect.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.