Quotes About Reality

It's an unhealthy habit to say that life is what you make of it, and if you want to be happy, then you can be happy. That's just rubbish, basically.

Truth is more peculiar than fiction. Life is really a startling place.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

I first came to London when I was 22 and working as a roadie. Having watched the 'News At Ten' all my life, I thought Big Ben was going to be massive, but I was underwhelmed.

Life--you have to live it as it comes.

Schooling ain't life." "Ain't it?" she says, her eyebrows raising in mock surprise.

I think, for myself, life lied to me.

If you understand life...you MUST be misinformed!

Spending years studying at university only to find out at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realising all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped from the palace and the women and the riches and the luxury and everything.

Convert life into truth.

What we're seeing "out there" is the projection of where we're at--the projection of the clingings of our minds.

At one time, you think you're invincible. This just can't happen to you but, when it happens, the reality sets in that you either change or you die. You realize you've got only one life.

EVERYTHING in your life you have attracted .. accept that fact .. it's true.

Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but...

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be. Nothing is ever good enough the way it is.

From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.