Best 255 quotes in «real life quotes» category

What is life but an ongoing war?

What's the use of life without health? It's like living dead

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat. After a while it becomes more innovative in thinking up how to lose than thinnking up how to win.

When I got back to my office Tween was there. She rose from the foyer couch as I wheezed in off the ramp. I took one look at her and said, “Come inside.” She followed me through the inner door. I waved my hand over the infra-red plate and it closed. Then I put out my arms. She bleated like a new-born lamb and flew to me. Her tears were scalding, and I don’t think human muscles are built for the wrenching those agonized sobs gave her. People should cry more. They ought to learn how to do it easily, like laughing or sweating. Crying piles up. In people like Tween, who do nothing if they can’t smile and make a habit-pattern of it, it really piles up. With a reservoir like that, and no developed outlet, things get torn when the pressure builds too high. I just held her tight so she wouldn’t explode. The only thing I said to her was “sh-h-h” once when she tried to talk while she wept. One thing at a time.

When you finally understand the meaning of life, you come to the conclusion it has none after all

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

[...] when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [...]

When you imitate others in real life, you deny the world benefits of your uniqueness. So be who you were born to be.

When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life

Where would we go, then, Skintick? We don’t even know where we are. What realm is this? What world lies beyond this forest? Cousin, we have nowhere else to go.’ ‘Nowhere, and anywhere. In the circumstances, Nimander, the former leads to the latter, like reaching a door everyone believes barred, locked tight, and lo, it opens wide at the touch. Nowhere and anywhere are states of mind. See this forest around us? Is it a barrier, or ten thousand paths leading into mystery and wonder? Whichever you decide, the forest itself remains unchanged.

Why use profanity in real life and writing? Because sometimes 'darn it' just doesn't cut it.

Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal

Why d’you think she did it?” I told him I had no idea. He seemed disappointed that I shouldn’t know. “A broken heart,” I suggested. “Do people suffer so much?” “For love? Oh, I imagine so.” “To drown herself?” “Why does that astonish you? Dido threw herself on the flames.” “In legend.” “And real life’s different?” I asked.

Wisdom grows along with age. When we are young we feel we can conquer anything. As we age we realize it's a journey, with all its victories and defeats, sorrows and joys, that matter the most.

Wise men are wise yet their actions always seem otherwise to others who always think of the otherwise

Without Warning: Sometimes your traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you don't wake up. But if you happen to, you know things will never be the same. Sometimes that's not so bad. Sometimes lives intersect, no rhyme, no reason, except, perhaps, for a passing semi.

Yeah, well, she ended up exchanging email addresses with these two. Nothing particularly helpful, but we're looking to establish whether they actually met her - you know, in Real Life," said Wardle. Strange, thought Strike, how that phrase - so prevalent in childhood to differentiate between the fantasy world of play and the dull adult world of fact - had now come to signify the life that a person had outside the internet.

Wouldn't it be nice if we could get rid of hurtful feelings and memories the same way we so easily send a bad picture sailing into our computer's trash can?

wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.

You are not a man as ordinary men are. They think they have a right to all beasts; to hunt them and eat them, or to subjugate them and rule their lives. You know you have no such right to mastery. The horse that carries you will do so because he wishes to, as does the wolf that hunts beside you. You have a deeper sense of yourself in the world. You believe you have a right, not to rule it, but to be part of it. Predator or prey; there is no shame to being either one.

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

You brought nothing into this world; you will take nothing from it, but please, leave us with something

You can truly live if you can see yourself centuries after you have died. Just imagine it. What will people remember about you, how will your grave look like? How will your children live, etc.

Your cynicism lies in your willing abuse of others to consolidate your superiority over them. My cynicism is in regard to humanity’s wilful blindness with respect to its own extinction.’ ‘Without that wilful blindness there is naught but despair.’ ‘Oh, I am not that cynical. In fact, I do not agree at all. Maybe when the wilful blindness runs its inevitable course, there will be born wilful wisdom, the revelation of seeing things as they are.’ ‘Things? To which things are you referring, old man?’ ‘Why, that everything of true value is, in fact, free.

You mustn't let men drive you to mangling the English language, no matter how sweet they are.

Your true beliefs are known in agony

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

You will never really think hard about your life until your oxygen mask is taken away from you when you are at the bed of the ocean. At that exact moment, your true self will be revealed. You will really know if you are a believer or an atheist, whether you really love life or hate it as you usually say. All your claims will be tested

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

Before I was cast on The Surreal Life my knowledge of Christopher Knight was pretty much he was on The Brady Bunch and I hated The Brady Bunch.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

But in real life, happily-ever-after is just the beginning. It's where life starts.

Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head.

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

I appreciate the Surreal Life. I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldnt have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

Friends, much as in real life, are often more trouble than their worth.

In real life I'm a tall, blond Christian.

I'm the least sexy person in real life.

In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

It is a surreal life living on a television series set, and especially when I go out in public. I have people who recognize me and will come up to me, saying how much they enjoy seeing me, asking for a picture, and I still think to myself, "Uh, why?

It is never, never too late, in a story or in real life, to correct.

It's always better to be real.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Just getting to talk to that person [Woody Allen ] in real life was pretty wild.

Nobody in real life ever takes me seriously.

Nothing is wrong - whatever is happening is just "real life.