Real Life Quotes - Page 25

• Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.

  J.M.G. Le Clézio

  Real, Book, Ends

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• The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration. Real life is response to the best within us. To be alive only to appetite, pleasure, pride, money-making, and not to goodness and kindness, purity and love, poetry, music, flowers, stars, God and eternal hopes, is to deprive one's self of the real joy of living.

  David O. McKay

  Religious, Stars, Kindness

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• I'd killed him in the end, but revenge only makes things all better in the movies. In real life, once the villain is dead the trauma lives on inside the victims.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Revenge, Real, Villain

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2010). “Bullet”, p.20, Hachette UK

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• I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at your picture today for countless minutes. It is closer than I’ll ever get to you for real. I felt like I was looking at a captured animal at a safe distance. If you knew I was doing this, you would feel sickened and frightened. That’s why you’ll never know. Years will go by and you’ll never know. I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Hate, Real

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• But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

  Howard Zinn

  Real, Law, Justice

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.43, Beacon Press

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• . . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

  George Orwell

  Real, Secret, Should

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

  Terri Windling

  Real, Thinking, Fire

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• Oh, this shouldn't be allowed. There should be a rule which says that people you've met in the gym should never meet you in real life.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Real, People, Should

  "Shopaholic Abroad". Book by Sophie Kinsella, 2001.

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• As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?

  Tina Fey

  Real, Hands, Dollars

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• Thats beautiful! Sad and beautiful," murmured Meggie. Why were sad stories often so beautiful? It was different in real life.

  Cornelia Funke

  Beautiful, Real, Different

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.416, Scholastic Inc.

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• Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

  Lev Grossman

  Real, Doors, Waiting

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.259, Penguin

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• There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

  Laura Lippman

  Real, Book, Serendipity

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• ...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.

  Nick Hornby

  Real, Imagination, Unexpected

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• Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

  Matthew Quick

  Happiness, Real, Feel Good

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.217, Sarah Crichton Books

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• As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made me fade into real life.

  Charles Baxter

  Couple, Real, Unhappy

  Charles Baxter (2000). “The Feast of Love”, Pantheon

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• 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

  Laughter, Children, Real

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• But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Real, Stitches, Toys

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.51, Hachette UK

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• You will love again, people say. Give it time. Me with time running out. Day after day of the everyday. What they call real life, made of eighth-inch gauge. Newness strutting around as if it were significant. Irony, neatness and rhyme pretending to be poetry. I want to go back to that time after Michiko's death when I cried every day among the trees. To the real. To the magnitude of pain, of being that much alive.

  Jack Gilbert

  Running, Pain, Real

  Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.13, Knopf

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• It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

  Marian Keyes

  Real, Decision, Gains

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• The bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and live a real life. Our real discoveries come from chaos. - Brandy Alexander

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Mistake, Discovery

  "Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• Sometimes plans don't translate smoothly from paper to real life.

  Eoin Colfer

  Real, Paper, Sometimes

  Eoin Colfer (2003). “Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident - Book #2”, Miramax

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• I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

  Jodi Picoult

  Real, Thinking, Idiot

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2012). “Between the Lines”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence.

  John Keats

  Real, Past, Feelings

  "Complete Poems and Selected Letters of John Keats".

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• Waiting for my real life to start is no excuse to waste the life I have right now.

  Susane Colasanti

  Real, Waiting, Waste

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• Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah...." Yeah. In my dreams. In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy.

  Meg Cabot

  Dream, Real, Boys

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