Life Isn't Real Quotes

#1. I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.

David Levithan

#2. Life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality.

David Levithan

#3. Renee used to say real life was a bad country song, except bad country songs were believable and real life isn't.

Rob Sheffield

#4. We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

Ann Brashares

#5. Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.

Lucian Bane

#6. Please let there be another life. I need a real taste of forever with you. This ... this isn't long enough.

Jewel E. Ann

#7. I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.

Eli Roth

#8. It isn't as if a writer merely records life as it unfurls. Reality does not automatically transcribe as literature; real people are not shapely, compelling characters to be harvested. Charming facts and sharp observations rarely slide seamlessly into whatever narrative is at hand.

Michelle Huneven

#9. Is Dwight really like that in real life?" to which I respond: "Oh, no, Rainn isn't like Dwight. Dwight is an angel next to Rainn. Rainn is a demon.

Mindy Kaling

#10. Real life isn't like the movies. The victim doesn't usually win. She just endures.

Laura Wiess

#11. When I was a kid, I really loved watching 'Cinderella.' It's a fantasy, and every girl knows that real life isn't always like these movies, but as a child, I just really loved the story of 'Cinderella.' I found it to be so romantic and just a beautiful movie to watch.

Sara Ramirez

#12. ..reading your ex's horoscope every week isn't going to help you control his life. No, you need to hide in his bushes, break into his email, or kidnap his dog if you want to effect any real change.

Jenny Mollen

#13. Life isn't life without real butter.

A.D. Posey

#14. If you work hard enough at something, it begins to make itself part of you, even though you do not really like it and know that part isn't real.

Qiu Xiaolong

#15. I have to keep explaining to people that screen kissing isn't quite the same; it's close, but it isn't quite the same as a normal, real-life kiss.

Margot Robbie

#16. Pretty' doesn't mean 'good,' you know, Geneva. Real life isn't like fairy tales. 'Pretty' simply means that by accident you've got things arranged on your outside in an extra-pleasing manner. It doesn't tell a thing about your inside.

Natalie Babbitt

#17. I go back to it, if only to remind myself that life isn't always a butcher's game. Sometimes the prizes are real. Sometimes they're precious.

Stephen King

#18. When you sleep, your dream world is as real to you as life, isn't it?

Richard Matheson

#19. To define means to fix, and, when you get down to it, real life isn't fixed.

Alan W. Watts

#20. Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#21. It's not a real place, not a real thing. Mom made up the Gray Space, the place of anti-art, antifeeling, the cold dark place that felt like death. It was just her zany way of describing the place she went when she felt most depressed, when making music at all became impossible.
It isn't real.

Kate Ellison

#22. Real life isn't made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.

Kat Kruger

#23. The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

Ray Bradbury

#24. This is my real secret to being a joyful person: I make my life easy. I spend more time being grateful for what I have instead of focusing on what isn't working. I no longer believe that people have to do things my way and that I have to be perfect.

Ellen DeGeneres

#25. Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.

Jennifer Crusie

#26. We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either.

Seth

#27. Real life, real love, isn't the way you see it in movies or read about in books.

Jennifer Ziegler

#28. Some people like drama so much that they have to start inventing things because real life isn't interesting enough for them.

Lisa Ballantyne

#29. Life's pretty friggin' mean most of the time. People got real problems and real shit to cry about, but this isn't it. This is the good stuff, and I've been kicked by life one too many times to just ignore it when something sweet falls in my lap.

Kele Moon

#30. All you know is what you think you know, but that isn't always what's real.

Carrie Vaughn

#31. Real life? Well, I just hope mine isn't investigated. They might find that I don't really exist - that I'm just a hologram.

Steven Wright

#32. I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.

Rita Dove

#33. Real, sturdy, lasting peace, peace that doesn't rise and fall with circumstances, isn't to be found in picking apart your life until you have understood all of the components. You will never understand it all because God, for your good and his glory, keeps some of it shrouded in mystery.

Paul David Tripp

#34. I'm a very happy-go-lucky lover of all mankind as a person in real life. So when I play a darker character, I have to tap into something that isn't my natural way, and what I found was that I think human beings have the potential for all of these emotions.

Doug Jones

#35. Dewey believed that education has a practical function and should not be seen as a series of pointless hurdles to jump over before 'real life' begins. Education isn't a preamble to life; it's part of life, and it exists to solve practical human problems and meet human needs.

Gregory Bassham

#36. I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties
or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to.

Silver RavenWolf

#37. She'll take what she can get and be happy about it, because love isn't about convenience and frozen yogurt and real life. That isn't what love is about.

Kelly Link

#38. Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

Stephanie Perkins

#39. Believing in love isn't like believing in flying reindeer. It's like believing in rain. Or summer. Or Christmas. Love is real and steady and absolutely essential to any kind of life. Not believing in it doesn't make it any less so.

Sabrina Jeffries

#40. Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.

Ken Poirot

#41. Real life isn't like that. It's one take, unedited, imperfect, and littered with mistakes that we must repeat until we get it right - a truth for for teenagers and adults alike.

Connor Franta

#42. But a real vision, a real change, isn't safe," Maya said. "You don't pay a workshop fee for it, you pay with your life.

Starhawk

#43. Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.

Kate McGahan

#44. I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

Louise Penny

#45. Sonya's a real person, like your Mother. Thirty years ago, that was your Mother's biggest flaw in my eyes, and now that's the thing I love most about Sonya. It's funny how things end, isn't it?

Matthew Norman

#46. Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.

Gene Hackman

#47. Real life isn't a series of interconnected events occurring one after another like beads strung on a necklace. Life is actually a series of encounters in which one event may change those that follow in a wholly unpredictable, even devastating way.

Michael Crichton

#48. If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

Morgan Freeman

#49. It's important for nerds to realize, too, that school is not life. School is a strange, artificial thing, half sterile and half feral. It's all-encompassing, like life, but it isn't the real thing. It's only temporary, and if you look, you can see beyond it even while you're still in it.

Paul Graham

#50. Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.

Leigh Michaels

#51. Fiction isn't truer than life: it just makes a better story.

Marty Rubin

#52. I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

Julie Kavner

#53. But love isn't a career. It isn't a degree you earn or a formula you pull out of a textbook. It's bumpy and blotched and painful and completely irreplaceable. Aren't there times when it might be better to let go? Sometimes the best part of life grows out of what you have no say over.

Carol Cassella

#54. This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

Richelle Mead

#55. I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life.

David Oyelowo

#56. I love sitting at my desk and facing a quiet day with a pen in my hand, and putting myself into a story. It's kind of weird, isn't it? I mean, to absent myself from real life and make up stories is strange, but I started doing this when I was ten years old. It was all I wanted to do.

Philip Kerr

#57. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.

N.A. Koziol

#58. Fear isn't real. It's something we create when we think about what could happen.

Robin Bielman

#59. What makes the gospel good news isn't the concept, but the real-life person who has been changed by it.[90]

Jen Hatmaker

#60. The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Vonda Shepard

#61. Real life isn't like those comic books you love so much.

James L. Rubart

#62. You two are suggesting that something supernatural is going on here, but this isn't a horror movie. In real life there are always logical explanations.

D.J. MacHale

#63. It isn't fair, but maybe that's the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

Susan Wiggs

#64. A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right?

Jesse Schell

#65. There are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young isn't one of them. These are the two real tragedies: If you go through life and you don't love ... and if you go through life and you don't tell those whom you love that you love them.

John Powell

#66. I guess the sky in real life isn't actually perfect. Maybe that's what makes it so perfect.

Kami Garcia

#67. Either God is real or he isn't; I'm ok with that.

Anonymous

#68. when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble.

Brian Curtis

#69. I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

Marilyn Manson

#70. Stealing drugs, selling drugs, buying clothes, renting luxury cars, taking clothes back, ordering blender drinks, this isn't what I'd call Real Life, not by a long shot.

Chuck Palahniuk

#71. A problem isn't a real problem till you decide to make it a problem ... so what's the problem again?

Runa Magnus

#72. A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him.
[An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]

Rex Stout

#73. Why is it so horrible?" I ask him. "Life. All this. Why do they need to make us do this? Why do they treat us like we're their slaves?"
"Power."
"Power isn't real. It's just a word

Pierce Brown

#74. You sort of underestimate the human being when you say that every least thing that is an abstract experience is spiritual. It isn't. It's just your real self. You can be capable of fantastic abstract experiences, right in this life.

Agnes Martin

#75. Being on a movie set is wonderful experience, but it's a bubble - it isn't real life.

Jamie Campbell Bower

#76. Real value isn't in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

T.D. Jakes

#77. The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#78. The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

Jim Cornette

#79. Meant to be together? Are you listening to yourself? This isn't one of your fairy tales, Fallon. This is real life, and in the real world you have to bust your ass for the happy ever after!

Colleen Hoover

#80. I have this idealized version of myself in my head that is content and doing what she loves and is comfortable and sometimes I get caught up in her life that it's almost impossible to realize that she isn't real yet. But I hope to be her someday.

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