Real World Quotes

622 Real World quotes by 517 unique authors

The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness… — Alan Watts
I relaxed. “I would imagine in your world, girls are much different than here in the real world. I’m sure if you spent some time… — Abbi Glines
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile a term. It… — Adrienne Rich
There were things out there in the world, things that vampires feared, and now those things were here. She was only seconds out of a… — Rachel Caine
By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from… — James Joyce
Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly… — Catherynne M. Valente
Now that's a concept that's always fascinated me: the real world. Only a very specific subset of people use the term, have you noticed? To… — Tana French
A word of advice, though. This won't be the last time you have to deal with something in life that throws you off your game.… — Tammara Webber
In the real world, equal respect for all cultures doesn't translate into a rich mosaic of colorful and proud peoples interacting peacefully while maintaining a… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
If, then, my awareness of the past and future makes me less aware of the present, I must begin to wonder whether I am actually… — Alan Watts
Vanity, in a fairy tale, will make you evil. Vanity in the real world will drive you nuts. Vanity makes you say things like “I… — Richard Siken
Sometimes I suspected Ryan was merely visiting the real world, on vacation from his permanent residence in la-la land. — Rachel Vincent
He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world. — Katharine Hepburn
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in… — Angela Carter
It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes. — Haruki Murakami
That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other. — Haruki Murakami
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space,… — Paulo Coelho
Having a Christian worldview means being utterly convinced that biblical principles are not only true but also work better in the grit and grime of… — Nancy Pearcey
[A]s soon as you try and take a song from your mind into piano and voice and into the real world, something gets lost and… — Regina Spektor
The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.… — Ernest Becker
Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction.… — P. C. Cast
Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse… — Abraham Maslow
For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.… — Albert Ellis
People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I look away from… — Jodi Picoult
The trouble with you and me, is that we don't live in the real world. We dream of fantastic things that may never happen. — Agatha Christie

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