Top 500 Real Quotes (2025 Update)
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451. “Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace.”

— Nhat Hanh

452. “Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man’s will and his environment: in a word, of problem.”

— George Bernard Shaw

453. “The Internet is a big distraction. It’s distracting, it’s meaningless; it’s not real. It’s in the air somewhere.”

— Ray Bradbury

454. “The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.”

— Thomas A. Edison

455. “Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.”

— Milton Friedman

456. “Art awakens a sense of real by establishing an intimate relationship between our inner being and the universe at large, bringing us a consciousness of deep joy.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

457. “Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cannot be taken or are not allowed.”

— Bell Hooks

458. “The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.”

— Tom Robbins

459. “Self sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

460. “The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.”

— Ziggy Marley

461. “I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

— Neil Gaiman

462. “The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.”

— George Bernard Shaw

463. “Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man – the real Self of Man – the Atman.”

— Swami Vivekananda

464. “At night my mind does not much care if what it thinks is here or there. It tells me stories, it invents and makes up things that don’t make sense. I do not know why it does this stuff. The real world seems quite weird enough.”

— Shel Silverstein

465. “The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

466. “I loved you for a long, long time I know this love is real It don’t matter how it all went wrong That don’t change the way I feel And I can’t believe that time’s Gonna heal this wound I’m speaking of There ain’t no cure for love.”

— Leonard Cohen

467. “What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.”

— Mark Twain

468. “The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”

— George Orwell

469. “A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

470. “Tried living in the real world instead of a shell, but I was bored before I even began.”

— Steven Morrissey

471. “Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It’s just another colour to work with.”

— Quentin Tarantino

472. “Life is always trying to love us, but we need to be open if we are to see it. Fear shows us one world; and love shows us another world. We decide which world is real. And we decide which world we want to live in.”

— Louise Hay

473. “I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

474. “I don’t really dream, I space out during the day – that’s one of my problems wonder off when someone’s talking to me. I can’t remember any dreams in my life. There’s so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.”

— Tim Burton

475. “If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you’re not going to be a writer nothing I can say will help you. What you really need at the beginning is somebody to let you know that the effort is real.”

— James Baldwin

476. “If you’re not trying to be real, you don’t have to get it right. That’s art.”

— Andy Warhol

477. “Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.”

— Albert Camus

478. “Many sisters complain that people don’t want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn’t request you to take it off in the first place.”

— Omar Suleiman

479. “Anger is the real destroyer of our good human qualities; an enemy with a weapon cannot destroy these qualities, but anger can. Anger is our real enemy.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

480. “Real, sane, mature love – the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids after school – is not based on infatuation but on affection and respect.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

481. “You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.”

— Louisa May Alcott

482. “In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too few real atrocities to feed the hatred against the enemy.”

— Erich Fromm

483. “O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.”

— Langston Hughes

484. “Authentic power is the real deal. You can’t inherit it, buy it, or win it. You also can’t lose it. You don’t need to build your body, reputation, wealth, or charisma to get it.”

— Gary Zukav

485. “Freedom is the real source of human happiness and creativity. Irrespective of whether you are a believer or nonbeliever, whether Buddhist, Christian, or Jew, the important thing is to be a good human being.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

486. “Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That’s where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.”

— Terence McKenna

487. “When I am writing best, I really am lost in my world. I lose track of the outside world. I have a difficult time balancing between my real world and the artificial world.”

— George R.R. Martin

488. “Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

489. “Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

490. “Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.”

— Francis Chan

491. “Outside the street’s on fire in a real death waltz between what’s flesh and what’s fantasy.”

— Bruce Springsteen

492. “Even when I’m alone I have real good company – dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships – and nice, jolly little times with people.”

— L.M. Montgomery

493. “People don’t need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?”

— Beth Moore

494. “You can love someone so much... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

— John Green

495. “The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone’s problem, be aware that most people aren’t going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question.”

— Jim Rohn

496. “The key that unlocks energy is desire. It’s also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.”

— Earl Nightingale

497. “Maybe the world, without us, is the real poem.”

— Mary Oliver

498. “We have a very real God with a very real presence.”

— Beth Moore

499. “I don’t even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don’t do anything.”

— Lana Del Rey

500. “As an improviser, I always find it jarring when I meet someone in real life whose first answer is no. “No, we can’t do that.” “No, that’s not in the budget.” “No, I will not hold your hand for a dollar.” What kind of way is that to live?”

— Tina Fey