There ain’t nothing good that don’t got real bad waiting to follow it.
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it.
I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.
Real are the dreams of gods, and soothly pass their pleasures in a long immortal dream.
I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.
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 the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.
When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
To me, the real ‘state of the union’ is found in how Americans react to current events.
You want to meet a bunch of really friendly people? Go to a Slayer concert. There’ll be some real psychos there, but most of those people will take care of each other.
I’m not like paparazzi. I never force myself on anyone. I always ask, and some places offer money. And so I try and get these photos to give you, the viewer, a real look at what I was seeing.
So I’m more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It’s weird being here. It feels like I’m standing next to my real life.
Discipline is money in the bank. A real friend, true strength.
I’m just shallow and self-interested, and don’t get out much because I’m afraid of real commitments.
Americans should demand real news, more transparency and more truth.
My objection to supernatural beliefs is precisely that they miserably fail to do justice to the sublime grandeur of the real world. They represent a narrowing-down from reality, an impoverishment of what the real world has to offer.
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.
Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with trivial non-explanations and blinds them to the wonderful real explanations that we have within our grasp.
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.