Quotes About Reality

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.

Life itself is ... a sleep within a sleep.

We first share the life by which things exist, and afterwards see them as appearances in nature, and forget that we have shared their cause.

Time is so strange and life is twice as strange.

Life had become a reproduction: it was not the real thing.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Through this most powerful law, your thoughts become things in your life.

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

If there's another thing that sportswriting teaches you, it is that there are no transcendent themes in life. In all cases things are here and they're over, and that has to be enough.

When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?

That which we expect of life is indeed all that it ever can be.

I don't deny people their fantasy life, but I do think that we desperately need to start realizing just how complicated our reality is in America. Sitcoms just don't show us that.

Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

The world is not entirely comic and it's not entirely dramatic. You have a laugh and then someone finds a lump and you deal with that. Because that is what life is like.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sounding really fake.

Whether your beliefs are true or totally insane, if you accept them, then that's what your life will be about.

At last awake from life, that insane dream we take for waking now.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.

Fights in real life between real people only last so long before someone gets seriously hurt.

But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.

But a living is not a life.

In dreams you can become everything you're not. You can reverse the most fundamental truths of your life. You can taste death, the ultimate opposite.