Quotes About Reality

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.

I wish my life was a John Grisham novel. His heroes always seem to be one step away from death but come up with a brilliant plan. Unfortunately, real life can't be wrapped up with a nice little bow

Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.

Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

Teachings that defy reason defy reality; what defies reality defies life. Defying life is embracing death.

There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us.

Dreams are life, real life, not simply reflections. Dreams are honest.

As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.

I don't much live my life as if I was living in a Raymond Chandler novel, which is probably a good thing.

Life is difficult. Anyone who says different is trying to sell you something.

I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And we (will) all die and the stars will go out, one after another.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects are tried.

But I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.

It's funny when I read the tabloids and they're reporting on only a fraction of the life I'm leading.

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

I don't really want to write fiction at all. I don't see why fiction is necessary when we have real life already confusing enough.

When you are dealing with real life, there is no way to control it.

Life would continue to exist and grow. Cause and effect still exist even where there is no time.