Quotes about Reality
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
— Anais Nin
Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.
— Lady Gaga
God will have life to be real; we will be damned, but it shall be theatrical.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
— Paul Tillich
Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.
— John Keats
To perceive is to suffer.
— Aristotle
Does the universe exist only for me? It's possible. If so, it's sure going well for me, I must admit.
— Bill Gates
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
— Marcus Aurelius
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.
— Paulo Coelho
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
— William Faulkner
How can I lose faith in the justice of life, when the dreams of those who sleep upon feathers are not more beautiful than the dreams of those who sleep upon the earth?
— Khalil Gibran
There are three things in life which are real: God, human folly and laughter. Since the first two are beyond our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third.
— John F. Kennedy