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Quotes About Reality

. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school.
~ Daniel L. Doctoroff
The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.
~ Darren Shan
There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.
~ Daryl Gates
You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.
~ Dave Eggers
Life it seems a struggle between what we think and what we see
~ Dave Matthews
We usually think that a strong economy leads to an increase in life satisfaction among the population. We found that's not the case in Scotland.
~ David Blanchflower
But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.
~ David Clement-Davies
gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.
~ David Levithan
Though we cannot see the heart, we can see the life.
~ David Paul
Your life can only be as free as your perception of it
~ Deepak Chopra
Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.
~ Deepak Chopra
You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or guess.
~ Delphine de Vigan
People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!
~ Denis Leary
When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.
~ Denis Leary
Life isn't fair,' Skulduggery said. 'In my experience, death isn't so different.
~ Derek Landy
Reality trumps rationality.
~ Derek R. Audette
Sanity can take one of only two forms: that of ignorance, or denial.
~ Derek R. Audette
People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.
~ Desmond Tutu
...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
~ Dodie Smith
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.
~ Dodie Smith
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect.
~ Dorothy Allison
Life ain't the movies.
~ Dorothy Allison
There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections
~ Douglas Sirk