Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.
– YoungHa Kim
Related Quotes:
- A happy one will do her best to make you happy but a pathetic one will convert your life to a pathetic one – Sami Abouzid
- Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting. – YoungHa Kim
- Art is about going a little nuts and justifying the next sentence. – YoungHa Kim
- Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. – Justin Alcala
- Fiction described reality better than non-fiction. – Tommy Wallach
- Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird. – Erik Meyer
- This moment is our greatest treasure. We cannot replay the past events. We have no control over future events. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Life’s journey is one big path with series of events. All these events are connected. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. – Dan Simmons
- It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. – Dan Simmons
- If you keep seeing events and others through your existing lens you would miss out on the new possibility. Sometimes, reality!!! – Harrish Sairaman
- If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God. – Augustine of Hippo
- No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The lights flickered, the pain went away, and her mother was holding her, singing -˜Sleep sweet sleep’. (The Children of Ankh series) Kim Cormack – Kim Cormack
- I can’t wait to get back to writing today so I can see what happens next Kim Cormack – Kim Cormack
- I’m crying again. I cry so often now that sometimes I don’t even realize it until the tears are already streaming down my cheeks. – Kim Holden
- Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality. – Wayne Gerard Trotman
- Sometimes in fiction you had to mute reality in order to make it seem more believable. – Adam Langer
- I beg your pardon. Sometimes, it’s true I can be stubborn.’ ‘Sometimes?’ she added derisively. ‘Quite often,’ he tempered. – SN Lemoing
- No matter how pathetic or pitiful, every human is fated to have one moment in their lives in which they can change their own destiny. – Takayuki Yamaguchi
- The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. – Helen Keller
- Dreams alone with no acts toward achieving them are useless: no dreams at all is a condition of the pathetic. – Jonas Samuelle
- Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – HL Mencken
- Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock. – Christopher Hitchens
- Passion is never pathetic. – JC Lillis
- I won’t show weakness here, but, damn it, tears don’t mean I’m frail and pathetic, only that I’m unhappy. – Marianne Curley
- We are living out the drama of a pathetic story whose pages are smeared with our own handwriting. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- A man who can’t uphold his beliefs is pathetic dead or alive – Hajime Saito – Nobuhiro Watsuki
- How pathetic it is to describe these things which can’t truly be described. – Anne Rice
- Ah, a romantic.- Danny leaned back, threading his fingers behind his head. -œI used to be one, until my wife died. And then I was just pathetic. – Mary Jane Hathaway
- Saturated Arrogance…she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell.. – Muse
- World knows I am pathetic in remembering dates. I really wonder how I perfectly remember all the dates on which we met – Anamika Mishra
- Lies make for pathetic allies. – TF Hodge
- Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies-¦that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself. – T Casey Brennan
- Human hearts are such pathetic, frail little things-¦ like Ego wrapped in needy insecurity stuffed inside a glass box, so easily shattered. – Jaden Wilkes
- That’s the most pathetic part of being a human, the emotions you don’t ask for or want, they just rush you anyway. – Tarryn Fisher
- Have some pride, will ya? Begging someone to like you is so pathetic. – Stacey Kade
- The Church right now has more fashion than passion, is more pathetic than prophetic, is more superficial than supernatural. – Leonard Ravenhill
- Her mother was by turns tender and pathetic and terrifying, broken in a way that no one, in that time or place, had any idea how to fix. – Karen Abbott
- I love science fiction, always have, always will. But it’s the kind of science fiction that I love which I think is an important distinction. – Matthew S Williams