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Quotes About Reality

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Welcome to the real world, she said to me. Condescendingly. Take a seat. Take your life. Plot it out in black and white.
~ John Mayer
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
~ John Updike
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
~ Joseph Conrad
But she'd managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.
~ Jostein Gaarder
The greatest realities are physical and economic, all the subtleties of life come afterward.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I don't think fame changes people. People change as they gather more experiences and information about life.
~ Julia Roberts
Your dreams should never be better than your real life
~ Karl Pilkington
All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
~ Kate Morton
I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine.
~ Kate Walsh
No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life - you win some and you lose some.
~ Ken Keyes Jr.
After all, life is not a Hindi movie.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between
~ Kristen Bell
People take death lightly. They expect too much of life. That is why people take death lightly.
~ Laozi
Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?
~ William Shatner
We just had a near-life experience!
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
~ Richard Curtis
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
~ Saul Bellow
How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along?
~ Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn.
~ Maya Lin
Life wasn't about becoming, was it? It was about being.
~ Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.
~ Gwen Stefani