R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Real life is just another stage.
Just another stage where I have to look and act
Like I have everything put together;
everything neat, perfect, and in order,
when in reality I’m slowly dying,
Slowly decaying, screaming and clawing,
at this little box I’ve been put into,
Trying desperately to escape.”
Source: Bending The Universe
“Real life is like a constant Yelp review, everyone has notes on how the experience could be improved.”
Source: I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff
“Real life is little different, we live in time and era where success is fantasized as easy and many are delusional about a true and lasting success that comes from hard work, determination and sacrifice”
Source: Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process
“Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.”
“Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.”
Source: Watchmen
“Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.”
“Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.”
“Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.”
“Real life is not like a movie. Even the best movies, the most rich, fleshed-out movies are not as rich and nuanced as detailed as real life or an actual human being.”
“Real life is not like what you see on TV.”
Source: Sea Breeze Academy
“Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.”
Source: Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy
“Real life is nothing like television, there are no Special Victims Units like you see on TV protectively guiding women through the process. The police will act like just because they didn't kill you, they didn't somehow end your life.”
Source: Being Brave Again
“Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.”
“Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.”
Source: The End Of Mr. Y
“Real life is sometimes boring, rarely conclusive and boy, does the dialogue need work.”
“Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.”
“Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.”
Source: Mysticism and Logic
“Real life isn't purely filled with roses and rainbows.”
“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.”
Source: Michael Crichton's Jurassic World
“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.”
Source: Simple Abundance
“Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.”
Source: On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells
“Real-life may not always be a symphony of buoyant instants or ecstatic exploits. Downbeat emotional externalities can emerge unpredictably throughout our life journey. If we wish to turn life into an undying dance prom, let’s keep one foot in reality for sure. ("Blind date")”
“Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.”
Source: Memo For A Saner World
“Real life seeks the gentle slopes at the back of Mount Improbable, while creationists are blind to all but the daunting precipice at the front.”
Source: The God Delusion
“Real life seems to have no plots.”
“Real life this fdar had taught me that in the adult world, fate was chaotic and uncertain. Guidelines for success were arbitrary. But in the world of D&D, at least there was a rule book... By role-playing, we were in control, and our characters... wandered through places of danger, their destinies, ostensibly, within our grasp.”
“Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn't always have time to do or say the right things.”
Source: The Resort
“Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.”
Source: The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On
“Real life, with all its nuances and complexities, isn't the same, and this is especially true in the twenty-first century. Bad people prosper. Good people go bust. Read the newspapers or social media and it's easy to believe that there is no justice in the world and nobody is happy at all.”
Source: Marble Hall Murders
“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.”
Source: Vampire Blood Trilogy (The Saga of Darren Shan)
“Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can.”
“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.”
“Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.”
“Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.”
“Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.”
“Real lives have no end. Real books have no end.”
“Real living is living for others.”
“Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.”
“Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.”
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
“Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself.”
“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.”
“Real love and Sun have something in common; they are so bright that they don't have shadows, they are free of darkness...”
“Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.”
“Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is why Allah says: “that you may dwell in tranquility.” Hawa is the opposite. Hawa will make you miserable. And just like a drug, you will crave it always, but never be satisfied. You will chase it to your own detriment, but never reach it.”
“Real love can only be found in love storybooks, not in the hearts of those people who are just sex mongers or pretenders. Today does not exist Romeo and Juliet.”
“Real love cannot be deceived because it wants nothing outside of itself”
“Real love cannot be silent in the face of injustice.”
“Real love celebrates the other person as him/herself; it does not demand that they follow a script.”
“Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself.”