Quotes About Reality

Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

My life sucks when I'm only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what it's really like, I'd probably jump off a bridge.

One of the greatest tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a gang of brutal facts.

When people screamed novelty the first time around talking about an ugly video and stuff I was really insulted because, hold on a minute, everyone you see in the video are real life.

Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.

Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow.

I think people watch TV to escape from life.

Life is not theory. It is reality, with inherent duties to everything and everyone.

I lived that life for real, so to talk about it was like a joke, you know what I mean?

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.

As long as one accepts "time" tacitly as such he is dreaming a dream, not living a life.

It is no more possible to live in the future than it is to live in the past. If life is not now, it is never.

Because life is complicated and difficult. Anyone who says otherwise hasn't truly lived.

A problem is something you have hopes of changing. Anything else is a fact of life.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I don't want to live my life in a five-star hotel. That's not real life to me. You can't appreciate it.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

The disparity between what people said life was and what I knew it to be unnerved me at times, but I swore that nothing would ever make me say life should be anything.