Quotes About The Harsh Reality Of Life

#1. And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

Lucinda Riley

#2. Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#3. [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

Queen Elizabeth II

#4. They die like superheroes: cracking a joke. Like they're just going to get up tomorrow and fight another day. No fear. Balls to the wall until the bloody end.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. There's only so many times you can fight before the only person you fight for is yourself.

S.R. Crawford

#6. You can choose daily to brace up and face the harsh realities of life . . .
Or while away the days that come by daydreaming . . .
Better still, you can make your dreams your realities.

Ufuoma Apoki

#7. Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It's better than gasoline or diesel. It's cleaner, it's cheaper, and it's domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

T. Boone Pickens

#8. Time is kind
just not kind enough!

Yarro Rai

#9. I don't know why, but I like the saxophone.

Matt Dillon

#10. The reality of boy-girl life gets harsh, but in my fantasy, the music keeps them together.

Rob Sheffield

#11. People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

Logan Pearsall Smith

#12. Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.

Yarro Rai

#13. Nobody can just get from there to accepting a person's love in just an instant. She needed time to let that love cleanse her. I held my arms open to her, waiting for her to wind down. She walked into them and sobbed against my chest.

Andrew Jonathan Fine

#14. Nice girl, dear boy."
"Oh ... " I shrugged. "You know."
"Most attractive."
"Cheaper than central heating."
"I'm sure.

John Fowles

#15. The probability that a genius can do stupid things is much higher than the probability that a stupid can do genius things.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. As I observe my daily life and that of others, I have come to the conclusion that genuine joy is a potent mixture of harsh reality, and the realization that life can be funny.

Tone Bell

#17. What could be worse than having to be seen resorting to your own life?

Gary Lutz

#18. The harsh reality will be the fear that has always been at the back of your mind coming to play right in front of your eyes

Tshepang Sharon Koji

#19. Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

Robin McKinley

#20. It's easy to dislike the truth for it is ugly and harsh to the naked eye.

Antonio Kowatsch

#21. [ ... ] all women want to be objectified.

Alice Walsh

#22. Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.

Alice Walsh

#23. I used to have a big dog, a rottweiler, to guard the place. One night I was working late, and he was outside barking in the snow. He wouldn't stop. Then he stopped. I went out ten minutes later with a lamp, and there was a ring of wolves eating my dog.

Martin Cruz Smith

#24. As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Brad Herzog

#25. Everyone I know, men and women alike, would love to see the world changed so that boys and girls, men and women are valued equally for what we contribute, despite the differences in how our brains and bodies work.

Cris Mazza