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Quotes About Reality

Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In these moral acceptions, the way to be immortal is to die daily.
~ Thomas Browne
A human being tends to believe that the mood of the moment, be it troubled or blithe, peaceful or stormy, is the true, native, and permanent tenor of his existence.
~ Thomas E. Mann
I'm interested in people that don't always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.
~ Thomas Jane
When I filter the sunshine in my life, I bask in the light of a transforming and inspiring reality.
~ Thomas Kinkade
equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any special status.
~ Thomas Nagel
Life has its ups and downs, so to expect otherwise is setting yourself up for disappointment.
~ Tim Matheson
Did I choose this life of illusion? Don't be mad. My bed was made, I just lied in it.
~ Tim O'Brien
The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.
~ Tom O'Brien
My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.
~ Tom Perrotta
We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories
~ Tom Rachman
There is nothing like waking up at six in the morning and changing a baby's nappy to bring you face to face with life's reality.
~ Tony Blair
The thing always is to go to where people really are and what they're really feeling about life.
~ Tony Blair
I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.
~ Tony Kushner
Outside of show business, I live a normal life.
~ Tracy Morgan
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.
~ Vanna Bonta
We don't need fantasy to mess with our minds to the point of rendering us insane - real life horrors do that already.
~ Vera Nazarian
The official bio is the wrongest thing you've ever seen in your entire life.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
~ Wallace Shawn
There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.
~ Wallace Stevens
Words of the world are the life of the world.
~ Wallace Stevens
The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes.
~ Wallace Stevens
Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
~ Wally Lamb
The movie is more real in so many ways than the life I am leading. No, that's not true. I just desperately wish this was only a movie.
~ Walter Dean Myers
At least I've had one foot in a very normal kind of life.
~ Warren Zevon