#reality

We believe we are the consumers, but we are the consumed. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#reality-of-life #society #life

You see? I don’t know what ‘mature’ means, either, and you could talk all night and I still wouldn’t know. It’s all just words to me, Frank. I watch you talking and I think: Isn’t that amazing? He really does think that way; these words really do mean something to him. Sometimes it seems I’ve been watching people talk and thinking that all my life. And maybe it means there’s something awful the matter with me, but it’s true. ↗

— Richard Yates

#life

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#novels #realism #reality #writers #writing

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. ↗

— Margery Williams

#being #child #childhood #love #meaning

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there. ↗

— Adam Young

#owl-city #reality #love

You can love someone and not like spending time with them. ↗

— Will Fetters

#love #reality #love

Even if you fulfill your hearts desire, by sacrificing something important, you may not necessarily be happy. Happiness doesn’t come in one form, it determined by your own heart. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#nana #reality #dreams

Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d'un rêve, une réalité. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#life #reality #rêve #dreams

Nothing so ageing as giving into preconceived perceptions; the youth within one would not have given in to such stodginess. ↗

— allison malm

#age

Its oke to be sad. I've been trained to love my darkness ↗

— Lady Gaga

#life #love #reality #love