Real Life Truth Quotes

#1. You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

Tim O'Brien

#2. the truth was that I had become a secret agent because I could not bear for another minute the pointlessness of life in the real world.

Charles McCarry

#3. (The truth is that real life-change and the joy of being who you are designed to be always results in selflessness, not selfishness.)

Jon Acuff

#4. We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.

Bryant McGill

#5. It's time to stop focusing on what others think of you. They think they know you, but don't. They're stuck in the figment of their imagination.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#6. Life is difficult.

M. Scott Peck

#7. If you can be anything, be real.

Nikki Rowe

#8. And thus the real battle of life is not the toil for bread. It is fought by all who would keep alive and fresh in their hearts the truth that man doth not live by bread alone.

Percy Clough Ainsworth

#9. It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary.

Jason Mraz

#10. Deepen you knowledge of Jesus which ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Pope John Paul II

#11. Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth ... Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn't exactly the real world, but it said something real?

Blue Balliett

#12. Truth is universal. Perception of truth varies.

Bohdi Sanders

#13. I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

Nikki Rowe

#14. But Father Time is real. And, in truth, he cannot age. Beneath the unruly beard and cascading hair - signs of life, not death - his body is lean, his skin unwrinkled, immune to the very thing he lords over.

Mitch Albom

#15. God is in everyone. God is in you and you are God. Strengthen this fundamental truth. When you propagate this truth, that is the real service. It is the service that will take you to closer proximity, a boat. In this ocean of life, take the help of this boat and gain the proximity.

Sathya Sai Baba

#16. Why did everyone like that story so much when it wasn't true? Why was everyone so eager to believe it? Was it because, in real life, ever after's generally stink?

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#17. You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.

E'yen A. Gardner

#19. You know what truth is? [ ... ] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?

Kurt Vonnegut

#20. I think it's time for the media and our leaders to get real and start telling the truth about the impact of adultery on our national life.

Mike Pence

#21. YOUR job for a REAL LIVING LIFE is to be Responsible for your actions and your feelings. If people "don't understand you", don't worry, most people don't even know themselves enough to understand themselves, not to mind understanding You!!

A. Antares

#22. The goal and meaning of individual life (which is the only real life) no longer lie in individual development but in the policy of the State, which is thrust upon the individual from outside and consists in the execution of an abstract idea which ultimately tends to attract all life to itself.

C. G. Jung

#23. The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

Lane Kirkland

#24. Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.

Joseph Roth

#25. Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood - Addison Goodheart pg. 84

Dean Koontz

#26. As it turns out, Plutarch, consciously or unconsciously, touched on a truth that most of us feel, but rarely meditate upon: the little things in behaviour are the door not only to the real character of people but also to their soul.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#27. Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.

Midge Decter

#28. Death is just another path to take, as real as morning.

Na'ama Yehuda

#29. When possession of wealth or splendors brings happiness- it is an illusion, when attainment of certain mental state brings happiness- it is a real possession.

Debasish Mridha

#30. Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity of real spirituality: to be in service to the silence of the heart.

Adyashanti

#31. We were so little when you took away all our sins.

Maggie Stiefvater

#32. Truth be told, I hear stories every day that would make you say, 'If you put that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it.' Real life really is kinda incredible; the stories from people's actual lives defy credibility. People's lives are messy, humans are messy, and they're flawed.

Lynn Shelton

#33. The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game.

Orson Scott Card

#34. The fundamental truth of democracy is the belief that the real pleasures of life are increased by sharing them.

Henry Dwight Sedgwick

#35. Why is it that we are happy to see change of system happening in movies but, when it comes to real life, we are afraid of it. Are we a Box Office Democracy?

Sukant Ratnakar

#36. Love is not only the expression of emotion or the expression of sentiment, it is a real thing. It is the absolute reality, which influences all creation.

Debasish Mridha

#37. Men are just men - it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone - the noblest man alive or the most wicked - has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion.

Gregory David Roberts

#38. Say, Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. But what do I know of real people or the world, considering my strange existence?

Dean Koontz

#39. Once

...Why
...lie?
...when
...truth is
...the easier path

Ellen Hopkins

#40. For an outpour of love there is always a first partaker

Sunday Adelaja

#41. I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

William P. Young

#42. If I could act like This was my real life, And not some cage where I've been placed, Well then, I could tell you The truth like I used to And not be afraid of sounding fake.

Conor Oberst

#43. The truth of the matter is movies are a reflection of life and violence is a real part of life. I don't think you could make movies exclusively where there was no violence.

Christopher McQuarrie

#44. There is no conscience in a real war.

Toba Beta

#45. [ ... ] 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 [ ... ]

David Zindell

#46. Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#47. Treasures are hidden and hard to find but if we could find a real treasure, it will shine our lives. In the similar way ultimate reality is hidden and hard to find but if we could find it, it will shine our lives.

Muditha Champika

#48. 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

#49. So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

Criss Jami

#50. Truth is man's nature; to be untrue is to be false to one's nature. dharma (Right Action) is the practical application in real life of the ideal of truth. Shanthi (Peace) is the result of Dharma and Preme (Love) is the sffulgence of Shanthi.

Sathya Sai Baba

#51. Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Azar Nafisi

#52. what people write reflects what they believe - fiction is where you go to tell or read the truth that people will stare or laugh at you for expressing in real life.

Michael Marshall

#53. The notion of "cause and effect" is sometimes useful in real life, and it can even be interesting in art, but I'm more interested in "cause and cause" or "effect and effect" or "and and and".

Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff

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

Marty Rubin

#55. All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.

Atticus Shaffer

#56. Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

Chuck Klosterman

#57. Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go.

Melissa De La Cruz

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

Emma Mckenzie

#59. They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.

Jeff Lindsay

#60. Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

Cyc Jouzy

#61. And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

Frederick Buechner

#62. Real life is about accepting ups and downs, the good and the bad, the possibility of failure as well as the ambition to succeed. Atheism speaks to the truth about our human nature because it recognizes all this and does not seek to shield us from the truth by myth and superstition

Julian Baggini

#63. Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

Edward James Olmos

#64. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Darren Shan

#65. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

Nikki Rowe

#66. The Journal is not essentially a confession, a story about oneself. It is a Memorial. What does the writer have to remember? Himself, who he is when he is not writing, when he is living his daily life, when he is alive and real, and not dying and without truth.

Maurice Blanchot

#67. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life - the life God is sending one day by day; what one calls one's "real life" is a phantom of one's own imagination.

Tim Challies

#68. Pimping is an art, Whoreson. There are very few pimps in this world who can really take the title of being a pimp. Just because a man gets his money from a whore, that don't make him no true pimp. Real pimps are really rare.

Donald Goines

#69. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

#70. Marriage is not mainly about being or staying in love. It's mainly about telling the truth with our lives. It's about portraying something true about Jesus Christ and the way He relates to his people. It is about showing in real life the glory of the gospel.

John Piper

#71. Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.

Frank Herbert

#72. The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

Don McCullin

#73. By their actions, they will show you who they are.

Leah Remini

#74. The real truth lies below the surface.

Bohdi Sanders

#75. I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history and become unforgettable. Even fiction portrays truth: good fiction is truth.

Nina Sankovitch

#76. The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can. God puts faith in place so you can believe in Him and all things spiritual without have it set before you in physical form.

Molly Friedenfeld

#77. We may have to face God's truth about our pain
it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can.

Jill Briscoe

#78. The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life
the life God is sending one day by day.

C.S. Lewis

#79. Your words may be heard but your attitude will be felt. Your attitude reveals your character so never try to deceive anyone with mere words. Word/Talk is cheap but character is key. It costs nothing to be authentic. Learn to be a man or woman of substance!

Kemi Sogunle

#80. I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood.

Dean Koontz

#81. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

Rene Descartes

#82. Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.

Jason Mraz

#83. The real wonders of life lie in the depths. Exploring the depths for truths is the real wonder which the child and the artist know: magic and power lie in truth.

Anais Nin

#84. You can keep your passive hope and blind faith, and I'll take the despair. Because at least the despair is real. I'd rather live in a grim reality than a comfortable delusion.

Evan Grinde

#85. It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

Daisaku Ikeda

#86. We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#87. Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?

Nikki Rowe

#88. As you go through life, don't let your feelings-real as they are-invalidate your need to let the truth of God's words guide your thinking. Remember that the path to your heart travels through your mind. Truth matters.

Randy Alcorn

#89. Fuck the ones who hurt you
Stop thinking about them,
Get on with your own life
They'll eventually come back with apologies
And you'll gladly accept them; as you keep growing with your life.

Nikki Rowe

#90. It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Vladimir Lenin

#91. We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.

C.S. Lewis

#92. What you consider as real may not exist at all, and what you cannot see today may turn out to be the purpose of your life one day.

Mayank S. Sengar

#93. How you do life is your real and final truth, not what ideas you believe.

Richard Rohr

#94. So it is in life ... In search of the truth, people make two steps forward and one step back. Sufferings, mistakes, and the tedium of life throw them back, but the thirst for truth and a stubborn will drive them on and on. And who knows? Maybe they'll row their way to the real truth ...

Anton Chekhov

#95. Let's life bring a joy, and let's realise that this now is a lie and to make a truth. To make a real life!

Deyth Banger

#96. As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

Henry David Thoreau

#97. We all are living but for a real life, some of us are craving.

Debasish Mridha

#98. We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

Nikki Rowe

#99. How many truths pass wrecking through the Illusion of Life, but none of them is an absolute truth therefore the real truth!

Sorin Cerin

#100. less small talk
and more real talk.

Nikki Rowe