Quotes About Reality

There are normal hours, and then there are invalid hours, where time stalls and slips, where life---real life---seems to exist at one remove.

I don't watch like Sci-fi or things like that, I'm always more like real life is so endlessly fascinating to me.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

I write about true-life type things.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

For life, good youth, hath never an illWhich hope cannot scatter, and faith cannot kill;And stubborn realities never shall bindThe free-spreading wings of a cheerful mind.

Plains deceive you; they cause you to think that life is easy! Mountains never deceive you; they teach you the realties! Go to the mountains!

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

I think there are a lot of things in life that are not fair. But life, I believe, isn't always perfect and idealistic.

What you have carried in your mind about the world is what you will see around the world. What you carry in your mind about your life is what you will see in your life.

No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

Life is a great disappointment.

Your life is a gift. Before anything else can be said about you, for some reason the universe (or God, or being, or force, or reality, or whatever you name it) chose to give you life.

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream

Life is an empty dream.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one.

One can choose life, or choose death. Having chosen life, I must live it as it is.

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.