Quotes About Reality

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?

It's not just songs and glamour. It's sweat, blood, broken toes, and mistakes... It's life.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

The reality of the situation is life on Earth has not changed. We need facts, we need events, we need specifics on things.

I'm all over my poems, even if their relation to my everyday life is that of dream to reality.

I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.

So much of life was the peeling away of illusions.

Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life.

One person's crazy is another person's sane, I guess.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular perceptual mode, a way of seeing life which is an illusory one.

At the moment you're suffering from what we call Maya. Maya is illusion. Maya is a Sanskrit word that suggests that we have forgotten. We've forgotten the purpose of life.

There is illusion, the way you see things now, thinking that there is a tomorrow, there is a today, there is time and that there is life and death. Those are just appearances

Sometimes I think death is a greater awareness than life. Life gives us the illusion of immortality, whereas death gives us the certainty of immortality

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.