Reality Quotes

I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.

On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has ...

Let us consider Elfland as a great national park, a vast and beautiful place where a person goes by ...

You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never gu...

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matte...

Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, and is concerned with ...

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for...

I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably...

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feelin...

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold o...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

What is meant by 'reality'? It would seem something very erratic, very undependable-now to be found ...

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack o...

Reality is a very subjective affair. I can only define it as a kind of gradual accumulation of infor...

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to m...

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatr...

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

Nevertheless, by dint of his personality and controlling instincts, Jobs was soon playing a stronger...

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with ...

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to re...

You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again...

To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstr...

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary ...

The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not fo...

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and ...

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

I'm quite proud of what I anticipated about reality television from my books in the early '90s, whic...

I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginati...

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evi...

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appe...

Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?

It is as if there were in the human consciousness a sense of reality, a feeling of objective presenc...

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it...

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the im...

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficu...

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - ...

Thus in a single phrase I can define the great illusion concerning 'love' in this world. It is the e...

I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious de...

Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling ...

Today, I went to sleep under a plum tree. There, I dreamed I was a butterfly, flying so pleasently. ...

Words are not just wind. Words have something to say. But if what they have to say is not fixed, the...

It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where ...

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations reality is therefore a...

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensat...

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past...

Only the other world has substance and reality only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth...

I do not believe that a dream should necessarily be taken for reality, or reality for madness.

Such nice people, the Hillingdons, though she's not really very easy to know, is she? I mean, she's ...

Liking is more important than loving. It lasts. I want what is between us to last, Luke. I don't wan...

When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary thin...

Why harrow oneself by looking on the worst side?... Because it is sometimes necessary.

... suppose if something very terrible had happened, so terrible as to be almost unbearable, one mig...

The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the const...

It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to informat...

It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our plane...

The sad reality is that there are no purely domestic issues in Israel. Issues that would be dealt wi...

Normal is the greatest enemy with regard to creating the new. And the way of getting around this is ...

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never ...

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff mys...

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta...

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common ...

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

If you wish to learn from the theoretical physicist anything about the methods which he uses, I woul...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...

Do you really believe that the moon isn’t there when nobody looks?

He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking se...

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent ...

Believe it or not, a normal human being is one who can have an orgasm and is adjusted to his society...

The world' is man's experience as it appears to, and is moulded by, his ego. It is that less abundan...

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s...

Each being is, exactly as you are, the sole centre of a Universe in no wise identical with, or even ...

In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Sphe...

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable rea...

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creati...

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning...

Science gives an exact photograph of the world, but it lacks an essential dimension of reality.

Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and re...

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see...

And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all thin...

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again and this interdepende...

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.