Quotes about reality page 6
“And reality has a well-known liberal bias.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
White House Correspondents' Association Dinner (2006)
Context: I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.
“You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.”
Shiro Amano (1976) Japanese manga artist
Source: Kingdom Hearts, Vol. 1
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”
Shirley Jackson book The Haunting of Hill House
Source: The Haunting of Hill House
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching: Transforming Suffering into Peace, Joy, and Liberation
“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.”
John Fowles book The French Lieutenant's Woman
Source: The French Lieutenant's Woman
“Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.”
Lily Tomlin (1939) American actress, comedian, writer, and producer
As "Trudy"
Unsourced variant: Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
Contributions of Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1985)
“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”
Nicholas Sparks book The Rescue
Source: 2000s, The Rescue (2000), Chapter 1, p. 9
“When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.”
Zack Snyder (1966) American film director, film producer, and screenwriter
Grace Paley (1922–2007) American writer and activist
“There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.”
Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
Jason Fried software entrepreneur
Source: Rework
“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Source: Skinny Legs and All
“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination
“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
“Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.”
Mathias Malzieu (1974) French singer
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
Nobel lecture (8 December 1980)
Context: Only if we assume that a poet constantly strives to liberate himself from borrowed styles in search for reality, is he dangerous. In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot. And, alas, a temptation to pronounce it, similar to an acute itching, becomes an obsession which doesn't allow one to think of anything else. That is why a poet chooses internal or external exile. It is not certain, however, that he is motivated exclusively by his concern with actuality. He may also desire to free himself from it and elsewhere, in other countries, on other shores, to recover, at least for short moments, his true vocation — which is to contemplate Being.
“The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality”
Chuck Klosterman book Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist
Source: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
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Source: The Visitor (2002)
Context: You asked for wisdom? Hear these words. Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.
“Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”
Sheryl WuDunn book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Source: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Insofern sich die Sätze der Mathematik auf die Wirklichkeit beziehen, sind sie nicht sicher, und insofern sie sicher sind, beziehen sie sich nicht auf die Wirklichkeit. http://books.google.com/books?id=QF0ON71WuxEC&q=%22Insofern+sich+die+S%C3%A4tze+der+Mathematik+auf+die%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage<br><br>Geometrie and Erfahrung (1921) pp. 3-4 link.springer.com http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-49903-6_1#page-1 as cited by Karl Popper, The Two Fundamental Problems of the Theory of Knowledge (2014) Tr. Andreas Pickel, Ed. Troels Eggers Hansen.<br>Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Albert Einstein / Quotes / 1920s<br><br>http://books.google.com/books?id=QF0ON71WuxEC&q=%22beziehen+sind+sie+nicht+sicher+und+insofern+sie+sicher+sind+beziehen+sie+sich+nicht+auf+die+Wirklichkeit%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage <br class="br">1920s, Sidelights on Relativity (1922)
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“Reality in strong doses frightens.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Source: The Toilers of the Sea
“… my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”
Jeff Lindsay book Dexter Is Delicious
Source: Dexter Is Delicious
“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”
James Baldwin book The Fire Next Time
Source: The Fire Next Time
“Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now
Azar Nafisi book Reading Lolita in Tehran
Source: Reading Lolita in Tehran (2003)
Context: As I trace the route to his apartment, the twists and turns, and pass once more the old tree opposite his house, I am struck by a sudden thought: memories have ways of becoming independent of the reality they evoke. They can soften us against those we were deeply hurt by or they can make us resent those we once accepted and loved unconditionally.
“Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.”
Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) French painter and sculptor
“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence
Source: The Age of Innocence
“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”
Philip K. Dick book Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
Source: Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”
Haruki Murakami book After Dark
Source: After Dark
“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.”
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Variant: What we needed were not words and promises but a steady accumulation of small realities.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.”
Eoin Colfer book And Another Thing...
Source: And Another Thing...
Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
As quoted in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget : A Collection of Quotations (1993) by Dorothy Winbush Riley.
Isabel Allende book The House of the Spirits
Variant: Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Source: The House of the Spirits
“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”
Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
“Good fiction creates its own reality.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
