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Quotes About Reality

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.
~ Mike Myers
This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else.
~ Miranda July
I have always felt a connection between daily life and art...my reality has been my key.
~ Mirella Freni
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.
~ Nastia Liukin
In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.
~ Paulo Coelho
Insanity - to have to construct a picture of one's life, by making inquiries of others.
~ Philip K. Dick
People say to me, Would you like to swap your life with me for 24 hours? Your life must be very strange. But of course I have not experienced any other life. It's not strange to me.
~ Prince Andrew
Any girl from any walk of life dreams of that special dress, and I try to make that dream a reality for her.
~ Oscar de la Renta
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.
~ Oscar Wilde
I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.
~ Richard Eyre
Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death.
~ Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
~ Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.
~ Teju Cole, Open City
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
~ Dave Attell
Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.
~ Alan Bradley
I have not drawn a very rosy picture of the magician. I did not intend to do so. To the novice entering the life and promising himself ease, indolence, and wealth, I should say, Don't!
~ Alexander Herrmann
What you're seeing, certainly on Instagram, is not real, not a reflection of real life, not an interaction.
~ Alice Eve
You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
~ Andre Leon Talley
My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
~ Andy Behrman
If there's one thing I know, it's this - everybody thinks somebody else is having a better life.
~ Arabella Weir
London, dirty little pool of life
~ Behramji Malabari
I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
~ Benjamin Cardozo
Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
They're not parallel at all. They're my concerns, but how they're expressed particularly on the page is completely divorced from who I am in my street life.
~ Chang-Rae Lee