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Quotes About Reality

In the big picture, life has a gap in it. It just does. You don't go crazy trying to fill it.
~ Sarah Silverman
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per cent?
~ Saul Bellow
I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.
~ Shahrukh Khan
Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.
~ Simone Elkeles
For this I see, that we, all we that live, Are but vain shadows, unsubstantial dreams.
~ Sophocles
Until we Dream of Life and Life becomes a Dream.
~ Stevie Wonder
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If life is not real, life is not earnest, and the grave is its goal, perhaps it's ridiculous t otake ourselves so seriously.
~ Thomas Nagel
We're making it up. The world, the universe, life, reality. Especially reality.
~ Tom Robbins
Life is short. You die before you think you're going to. Don't waste it in college unless you're doing something real. My view.
~ Tucker Carlson
Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.
~ Tupac Shakur
What is life without incompatible realities?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life [had] replaced logic.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.
~ Garrison Keillor
A woman's life is nine parts mess to one part magic, you'll learn that soon enough...and the parts that look like magic turn out to be the messiest of all.
~ George R. R. Martin
Life is cruel. Why should the afterlife be any different!
~ Gore Verbinski
Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.
~ Graham Linehan
I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.
~ Henry Rollins
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
~ Jack Kerouac
It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.
~ James Toback
No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.
~ Jay Baruchel
The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion will live here in only the most temporary way.
~ Joan Didion