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Quotes About Reality

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
~ T. S. Eliot
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
~ Thomas Hughes
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
~ Thornton Wilder
It's always very strange to have your life dramatized because it never happens like that. Things will be different.
~ Toby Jones
Sometimes I feel like art is supposed to mirror life, but strangely it's as if art is trying to catch up to life, to a certain extent?
~ Tracee Ellis Ross
I've got to show life as I see it.
~ Tracy Morgan
Life has to be described in pure and simple physical and physiological terms. It must be demystified and depsychologised
~ U.G. Krishnamurti
Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.
~ Virginia Woolf
Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.
~ Christopher Buehlman
Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.
~ Patrick Ness, More Than This
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.
~ Roseanne Barr
Life's true face is the skull.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.
~ Albert Camus
Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law
~ David Clement-Davies, Fell
This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That's why everything is exactly the wrong way around.
~ Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
I think life is so difficult to catch, it's so furtive, that a copy, a film, can in no way catch it and represent it.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
Life is just the time between crapping yourself.
~ Adam Carolla
People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.
~ Alice Walker
Life is not always what we think it is.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
There is such a difference between life and theory.
~ Anthony Trollope
Make your life a dream, and a dream a reality.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
My general rule of thumb is, once something's a ride at Disneyland, I assume that it is no longer a threat in real life. Which is why I don't expect to get attacked by a giant tea cup anytime soon.
~ Arj Barker