368 Quotes About Real-life

Oh, you mean like Orpheo rescuing Euniphon from the Underworld?” said Roland.Rob Anybody just stared.“It’s a myth from Ephebe,” Roland went on. “It’s supposed to be a love story, but it’s really a metaphor for the annual return of summer. There’s a lot of versions of that story.”(...)“A metaphor is a kind o’ lie to help people understand what’s true,” said Billy Bigchin, but this didn’t help much.

There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real.

It a sad fact that in life we seldom get to choose our responsibilities

Love alone is worthless. It cannot sustain a relationship … any relationship

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.

Dream are different than real life but important too.

Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.

For every moment I smile, I've braved a thousand frowns.

One has to live a life that creates a writer.