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Quotes About Reality

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
~ Charles Bukowski
Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Life is messy. Would that every puzzle piece fell into place, every word was kind, every accident happy, but such is not the case. Life is messy
~ Christopher Moore
It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Reality is the page. Life is the word.
~ David Mitchell
Reality always outstrips fiction. Whatever you make up, something more incredible always pops up in real life.
~ David Walliams
In my dreams you are standing right beside me, two hearts finally colliding, then i wake up and realise, realise, this is real life
~ Demi Lovato
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes.
~ Denis Waitley
All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Not sure how I feel about reality. I'm going to begin purchasing stuffed animals and endowing them with the qualities people in my life lack.
~ Dov Davidoff
I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.
~ Eddie Vedder
If I've been accused a number of times of writing plays where the endings are ambivalent, indeed, that's the way I find life.
~ Edward Albee
Not everything in life can be interpreted metaphorically; that's because things fall out on the way.
~ Edward Gorey
In 'real life' everything is diluted; in the novel everything is condensed.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
If there's one thing I've learned my whole life, time and age are but an illusion.
~ Elizabeth Reyes
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a dialogue ensues in the middle of a battlefield, symbolizing the battlefield of life which we are fighting through our illusions.
~ Frederick Lenz
When we dream, we create. All of life is a dream or a series of waking dreams. We dream our surroundings. We dream our friends, our relations. We dream our bodies. We dream our dreams.
~ Frederick Lenz
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.
~ Michel Houellebecq
I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.
~ Mike Birbiglia
Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy to hope for something else.
~ Miranda July
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
~ Nick Hornby
You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).
~ Nora Ephron
Your life may be really boring in reality, but online you're a competitive superhero.
~ Paul Gallant
The days of idealism had gone. Only life was left.
~ Paullina Simons