Reality-of-life Quotes

Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough-but tomorrow I could be a f...

It's impossible to defend oneself in the absence of goodwill

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...

The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all...

It's a matter of dishonour, and when it gets out, which it's bound to, this will be the one act you'...

I wonder how much the general population of this country know that the legal system has far more to ...

That didn't happen, of course. Things never happenedlike I imagined them.

we need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken

Everything looks uglier close up.

Well, what you ding this kind of work for--against your own people?""Three dollars a day. I got damn...

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started ac...

Well, what of it? I've not given up thinking of death. It's true that it's high time I was dead; and...

Summer is the time when it is too hot to do the job that it was too cold to do last winter.

I can understand, he said, that many people, many perfectly ordinary people, have an interesting sto...

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

So let's say you marry this girl. All right, you can still be a great man. Look at all the great men...

In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in fo...

Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you l...

As long as we encourage a culture of victim hood, said Monty, with the rhythmic smoothness of self-q...

That is the word of reality - need.

...I learned the lesson that, even after the revolution, cool, handsome and confident is always goin...

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and re...

Not everyone is born to fulfill an heroic role. The only realistic ambition is to live in the presen...

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than y...

To a great mind, nothing is little.

It's all about money, not freedom. You think you're free? Try going somewhere without money.

I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever...

Why am I made the way I am? Why do I care about all the wrong things, and nothing at all for the rig...