Reality Quotes

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you’re so weird you should be in movies.;'Yea...

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dream...

Some churches, sects, cults, or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigi...

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmani...

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this wor...

Some churches, sects, cults or religious movements are basically collective egoic entities, as rigid...

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic

No two person, ever read the same book.

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, e...

Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media p...

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of langua...

A tormenting thought: as of a certain point, history was no longer real. Without noticing it, all ma...

Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If yo...

Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt t...

Brand is just a perception, and perception will match reality over time. Sometimes it will be ahead,...

The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporatin...

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popu...

We don't act like that because we are in good humor we are in a good humor because otherwise we shou...

What’s going on outside, Ravic?” “Nothing new, Kate. The world goes on eagerly preparing for suicide...

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, p...

Now I know what the atom looks like.

...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of thi...

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the ...

The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know i...

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ...

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into ac...

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than ...

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poign...

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Th...

All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in realit...

The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, sin...

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts tha...

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discour...

I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my se...

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the ...

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and t...

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most pre...

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract th...

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Concerning this a man once said:Why such reluctance? If you only followed the parablesyou yourselves...

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

Art must take reality by surprise.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all d...

When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new re...

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always...

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.

The drive to knowledge has become too strong for us to be able to want happiness without knowledge o...

We have abolished the real world: what world is left? The apparent world perhaps? . . . But no! with...

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth i...

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have f...

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another...

‎"It always seemed somehow less real here... a really detailed dream, but sort of washed out, like a...

In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first

When dreams become more important than reality, you give up travel, building, creating; you even for...

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped ...

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to...

MARIEAs the day is long and the world is old, lots of people can stand on one spot, one after anothe...

Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than t...

Life is tough, then you die.

A pretty building I'm making, without either bricks or timber. I'm up i' the garret a'ready, and hav...

They'll take everything, even your tears.

Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality.

If we say we trust in Him, but in reality do not, then God, taking us at our word, lets us see that ...

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, ...

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. W...

Suddenly, like a lump of submerged wreckage breaking the surface of water, the thought burst into hi...

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mista...

If one is to rule, and to continue ruling, one must be able to dislocate the sense of reality.

But if there was hope, it lay in the proles. You had to cling on to that. When you put it in words i...

Reality only exerts its pressure through the needs of everyday life - the need to eat and drink, to ...

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructe...

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

Reality is inside the skull.

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this...

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

Harsh justice is still justice.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his ...

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to ...

Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in ...

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of posit...

Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.

You should dream more, Mr. Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in...

If this book has made any point clear, I hope it's that things don't have to be real to be true. Or ...