Best 255 quotes in «real life quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

Alcohol is like Photoshop for real life

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.

Your true beliefs are known in agony

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

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

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.

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

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

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider 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.

Playing a villain was fun, only because you get to do all the things you wouldn't normally do in your real life.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.