Real Life Quotes

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

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

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

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