Quotes About Reality

I am just like you and everyone else. I am trying to live my life as best I can.

History illumes reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life

Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short.

Hollywood life is never true. Ever.

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have.

There is no true life within a false life.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

An older friend once told me, "Life didn't ask for your opinion," which I liked.

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.

Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith

Life is a terrible thing, thank God.

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. – Dylan Thomas

Dark is a way and light is a place, / Heaven that never was / Nor will be ever is always true.

The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!

When we begin to genuinely appreciate the illusory, dreamlike nature of our waking experiences, we are starting to mix those appearances with the appearances of our nighttime dreams. We are bringing those two states closer together.

We can also lose our way if we misunderstand selflessness or emptiness. When we confuse relative reality with ultimate reality, or misinterpret ultimate reality as something that destroys the conventional world, then we fall into the trap of the nihilists who see no meaning or purpose in life. Then our view of emptiness is inspired by sadness and depression, and it becomes just another tool to shut everything down. Instead of looking at the world with joy, we see it as hopeless.

It is vital to understand that however positive this worldly life, or even a small part of it, may appear to be, ultimately it will fail because absolutely nothing genuinely works in samsara.

If you dream that you are flying and continue to believe that you can fly even after you wake up, that becomes a problem.

If we know, even a little bit, that some of our familiar concepts, feelings, and objects exist only as a dream, we develop a much better sense of humour. Recognizing the humour in our situation prevents suffering. We still experience emotions, but they can no longer play tricks on us or pull the wool over our eyes.