100 Quotes About Real-Life

He shook his head, just looking at me. - "What?" I asked.- "Nothing" he said.- "Why are you looking at me like that?" Augustus half smiled. "Because you`re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence." A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: "I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything." I kind of scoffed or sighed or exhaled in a way that was vaguely coughy and then said, "I`m not beau-"- "You are like a millennial Natalie Portman. Like V for Vendetta Natalie Portman."- "Never seen it."- "Really?" he asked. "Pixie-haired gorgeous girl dislikes authority and can`t help but fall for a boy she knows is trouble. It`s your autobiography, so far as I can tell." His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn`t even know that guys could turn me on - not, like, in real life. . John Green

It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart. Anne Frank

It’s not their (parents’) job to prevent their children from making mistakes, because mistakes are a normal part of our lives. It’s like preventing those children from having a real experience. A real life. Lukasz Laniecki

From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that I learned to dream, to imagine a different life, to realize potentials and probabilities other than those of the painful, poverty-mired existence I found myself in as a child. With a book I could hide in a corner, safe from the heavy hand and belt of my stepfather, and for a while not worry about where our next meal would come from, or where we would be sleeping that night, or when my mother would break and have to be sent yet again to the mental institution. Books, for me, we tiny life rafts that I clung to desperately. . J. Don Cook

FORKED BRANCHESWe grew up on the same street, You and me. We went to the same schools, Rode the same bus, Had the same friends, And even shared spaghetti With each other's families. And though our roots belong to The same tree, Our branches have grown In different directions. Our tree, Now resembles a thousand Other trees In a sea of a trillion Other trees With parallel destinies And similar dreams. You cannot envy the branch That grows bigger From the same seed, And you cannot Blame it on the sun's direction. But you still compare us, As if we're still those two Kids at the park Slurping down slushies and Eating ice cream. Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010). Suzy Kassem

The artistic life is a long and lovely suicide precisely because it involves the negation of self; as Highsmith imagined herself as her characters, so Ripley takes on the personae of others and in doing so metamorphoses himself into a 'living' work of art. A return to the 'real life' after a period of creativity resulted in a fall in spirits, an agony Highsmith felt acutely. She voiced this pain in the novel via Bernard's quotation of an excerpt from Derwatt's notebook: 'There is no depression for the artist except that caused by a return to the self'. Andrew Wilson

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. ‘Real hurts.’ Kristin Hannah

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child. Donald Miller

We deal with so many nightmares on a regular basis. When I’m watching a horror movie, there’s a pattern, a sense of control in them. I’m just an observer, not having to deal with any of the repercussions. It’s a nice dream to think monsters play by the rules, that they’ve got a pattern you can unlock and follow. Real life’s messy, and the chaos leaves you devastated in the wake. Katherine McIntyre

Reality wins, and I'd rather see the truth than stay in love with a fantasy. Jewel

Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmosphere―reality behaving as a low front, fantasy a high front. Each remains somewhat distinguishable and yet they swirl and join, affecting and manipulating the other. One cannot perceive where reality ends and fantasy begins, but life would grow stagnant and die without the influence of both. Richelle E. Goodrich

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete. Shannon L. Alder

Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past. Shannon L. Alder

Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief. Oliver Gaspirtz

If you have life, smile and pursue life! Don’t keep your smile; keep smiling! We only need just one great thing in life, and that is life! All else are mere wants to gratify and beautify life. The real beauty of life is in having life and knowing what real life is all about! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A lot of churches and church people give God a bad name. There's a scripture in the Bible that says the traditions of men make the word of God of none effect. That's so true. All our religious rituals dilute the reality of who God is and make a lot of people not want to have anything to do with Him. I had to learn to reject 'Churchianity' and not Christianity. Sherri L. Lewis

Family is the only why of life Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side. Michael Bassey Johnson

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. Philip K. Dick

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. Neil Gaiman

It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us watched a romance movie marathon on TBS Superstation that made me wonder how people who write romantic comedies can sleep at night. At some point during almost every romantic comedy, the female lead suddenly trips and falls, stumbling helplessly over something ridiculous like a leaf, and then some Matthew McConaughey type either whips around the corner just in the nick of time to save her or is clumsily pulled down along with her. That event predictably leads to the magical moment of their first kiss. Please. I fall all-the-time. You know who comes and gets me? The bouncer. Then, within the two hour time frame of the movie, the couple meet, fall in love, fall out of love, break up, and then just before the end of the movie, they happen to bump into each other by "coincidence" somewhere absolutely absurd, like by the river. This never happens in real life. The last time I bumped into an ex-boyfriend was at three o'clock in the morning at Rite Aid. I was ringing up Gas-X and corn removers. Chelsea Handler

A deus ex machina will never appear in real life so you best make other arrangements. Marisha Pessl

First partakers of love are always enveloped with the real intention Sunday Adelaja

In short, the man displayed a constant and insurmountable impulse to wrap himself in a covering, to make himself, so to speak, a case which would isolate him and protect him from external influences. Reality irritated him, frightened him, kept him in continual agitation, and, perhaps to justify his timidity, his aversion for the actual, he always praised the past and what had never existed; and even the classical languages which he taught were in reality for him goloshes and umbrellas in which he sheltered himself from real life. Anton Chekhov

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

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name Bangambiki Habyarimana

True love makes you sleep and dream. But loud reality wakes you up Bangambiki Habyarimana

No matter how "normal" people look, living "ordinary" lives, everyone has a story to tell. And may be, just like you, everyone else is a misfit too. Sanhita Baruah

Ah youth, youth! That's what happens when you go steeping your soul into Shakespeare Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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. Colleen Hoover

In real life, you don't get a reset, and you don't get extra lives, and I got the crap pounded out of me. Rachel Caine

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

My son, Edward, at 4, to a neighbor boy who was being a pain in our backyard: "Oh, don't whine. my mom will throw you right out of here. Cynthia Jo Mahaffey

We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way they want to. What the hell was it all for, then? (Real Life and Liars) Kristina Riggle

Real life doesn't grant us many of the more than useful possibilities people can come out with in fiction. Camilo Gomes Jr.

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 Carl Henegan

Life's a book filled on pages Just awaiting to be written. Some don't open it for ages, Maybe afraid of being bitten. Ana Claudia Antunes

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending — not so much on stage as in real life... Simona Panova

My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown. Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself from sinking. Jaeda DeWalt

Critical thinking does seem a superior sort of thinking because it seems as though the critic is actually going beyond the scope of what is being criticized in order to criticize it. That is only rarely a true assumption because, most often, the critic will seize on some little aspect that he or she understands and tackle only that. Edward De Bono

Real life often ends badly, like our marriage did, Pat. And literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for people to endure nobly. Matthew Quick

Real life, life finally uncovered and clarified, the only life in consequence lived to the full, is literature. Life in this sense dwells within all ordinary people as much as the artist. But they do not see it because they are not trying to shed light on it. Marcel Proust

However, at fourteen years old, she didn’t understand that all those terrible troubles the heroines in her books went through in real life Kristen Ashley

Drift me away along with the dust traveling to infinity. To another world where it feels more at home. To another world where I don’t feel alone. Trapped in the angst of my soul. Not being embraced as a whole. A state of nothingness creeps upon me. Disappearing in the darkness of the shadows. How it has clocked my life. Because that is the only place where I find peace. I call it nyctophilia. And what am I when the day turns into the night, listening to the nocturnal and the howling wind? My soul leaving my body, To be at rest. Tears strain down my cheeks, Enough for my lungs to fight for air in the peaks. The atmosphere seems to be held in place by a certain silence, waiting for a sign to move. Even the earth forgot its behoove. Taken over by this silence that I yet do not understand myself. It seems that things don’t have a meaning, At least not anymore. The demons and darkness have taken over. Making me believe that it knows better. These demons can’t be seen, But they’re far from imaginary. They live inside my mind. Their evilness prevails, About to end the fight. Then I stop and think: This is a melancholy I’ll fight one more night. . Salina Khan

Real life is messy and hard and never turns out like I’ve imagined. Usually it’s better. So, I try not to dream but rather to pray. If there is one thing I know, it’s that I have no clue what I want. I’m fickle. I’m picky. And I’m scared of a lot of things. Especially commitment. Katie Kiesler

Don’t complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering Bangambiki Habyarimana

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 Bangambiki Habyarimana

We don't know where we come from and where we go, we fill the missing links with whatever our imaginations can provide us Bangambiki Habyarimana

Then nothing became something, and I was born, and I wrought great havoc in the world in the time allotted to me, and I returned to nothingness Bangambiki Habyarimana

Water in, water out until there is no water to run and the riverbed runs dry. That's life Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life has no map; it's made of random events, always caused by something beyond your control. Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is just a dream, to some it's a sweet dream, to others, a nightmare. But whatever it is, it's always short and dissipates quickly. Bangambiki Habyarimana

We live like sheep in line waiting to be slaughtered in a slaughterhouse. We eat and laugh and fight as we see those in front of us fall to the knife Bangambiki Habyarimana

A small event as tiny as a drop of a pin can change the direction of your entire life Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Most of our waking life is make believe. If there was a way to record every dream that crosses our minds, the true nature of humans would be laid bare Bangambiki Habyarimana

Do you know why we show respect to life when it shows none to us? Family is the answer Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is a stampede to get to the top Bangambiki Habyarimana

There are two important days in your life. The day you discovered you were alive and the day you forgot about it Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is like water in a glass. Drop by drop the glass empties. Bangambiki Habyarimana

Somethings are simply better left the way they are. Bangambiki Habyarimana

The hardest thing in life is a man to be honest with himself Bangambiki Habyarimana

Your true beliefs are known in agony Bangambiki Habyarimana

Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood Bangambiki Habyarimana

If you still have fear, you love life Bangambiki Habyarimana

Nature has endowed us with some measure of insanity to cope with the realities of daily life Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life becomes unbearable when, instead of living it, you stop to think about it. Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is a war. Guerrilla warfare, the strategy Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is so sweet. A man will even kiss the a** of his enemy to have his head spared Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is existence with meaning Bangambiki Habyarimana

Some people start to live when they die Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sometimes the rope seems the only option when at the bottom of the pit. Climb it to safety. Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

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. Bangambiki Habyarimana

Forget about being impressive and commit to being real. Because being real is impressive! Jonathan Harnisch

Though sincerity is a word which rings its meaning in the mind when it is mentioned, its real meaning in real sense is neither the meaning we imagine nor the spoken word but in action. Yes, it is action that determines what sincere means in reality. Real action that stands the test of time does not only give a true meaning to the word sincere in our mind and mind’s eye but it also creates a real picture of who a real sincere person is in our minds and mind’s eye. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you want to have your dreamed husband, you better not wake up; because in real life, all men are assholes. M.F. Moonzajer

Entrepreneurs are different beasts. Beasts who don’t give a damn, who kick ass when required, who stand up to a challenge, and who rise time and again with utter disregard to fear or failure. These are the beasts who run the world. Vishwas Mudagal