Quotes About Reality

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke. But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate, so let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

No matter what we predict for our futures, we're always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.

Everybody can't be like Redford and pop out there and make big bucks right away because you look like a Greek god... The guy's a friend of mine and he has absolutely no privacy in his life.

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

I've played so many jobs where I'm fearless, but it's far from me. I wish I were like that in real life.

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.

It was most essential for me to have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could return.

What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life.

It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.

I'm not sure there's such thing a thing as a normal life.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.

My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

Life is now... this day, this hour...and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.