Quotes About Reality

Unfortunately, there are no guarentees in life.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Don't let anybody ever tell you life's fair. Not as long as I'm in it.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation.

I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn't quite of the real world.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

As far as my own life goes, I don't buy into the Hollywood scene.

The only consistent narrative we possess is one that we share with every other life-form: we are born, we live, and then we die.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.

Every photo is almost a fiction or a dream. If it's really good, it's another form of life.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

I'm not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We're not 'celebrities', whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They're what people meet.

And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that's harmless, isn't it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it's just a word.