Quotes About Reality

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

you can live a whole life time never being awake.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

Whatever I hold in my mind tends to manifest itself in my life. What we believe and assume creates most of our reality and our experience.

In all the events of life, we ought still to preserve our scepticism. If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, it is only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.

Faking your own death is illegal, yet faking your own life is celebrated

Just because you're on the Disney Channel and you always have a smile on your face, they think you're perfect, and it's obvious that nobody's life really is.

You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.

Drugs are marvelous--it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

Things certainly aren't the way you imagine them when you're a kid and dreaming big dreams about what your life as a grown-up will look like.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.

In a certain sense you deny the existence of this world. You explain life as a state of rest, a state of rest in motion.

Unhappiness is really an incorrect way of seeing. When we are unhappy we don't see life as it really is. We are in a condition of veiled light, of shadows.

Some girls get swept up in the lifestyle-clubbing and partying with celebrities. You can't live your life like that, though. It's fake.

I grew up in a normal family. I have sweet parents, who are still married... But my life is so different from how I thought it would be.

What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned out to be a spineless, grinning idiot.

Actually, the true story of a person's life can never be written. It is beyond the power of literature. The full tale of any life would be both utterly boring and utterly unbelievable.