Quotes about reality

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“You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.”

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.”

“Sometimes I worry that there’s not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I’m a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won’t be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that’s what senility is.”

“Do not, under any circumstances belittle a works of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.”

“Most people are perpetually locked in the present. Their decisions are overly influenced by the most immediate event; they easily become emotional and ascribe greater significance to a problem than it should have in reality.”

“To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.”

“Birth is okay and death is okay, if we know that they are only concepts in our mind. Reality transcends both birth and death.”

“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”

“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.”

“Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.”

“It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.”

“You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.”

“Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

“what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?”

“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.”

“Strong and independent? I’m neither. I’m just being pushed along by reality, whether I like it or not.”

“When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.”

“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”

“Reason is the illusion of reality”

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”

“All I do know, for certain, after 53 years in this business, is that writers who sincerely think that their language can represent reality ought to be plumbers.”

“That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.”

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.”

“There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.”

“Working without a plan may seem scary. But blindly following a plan that has no relationship with reality is even scarier.”

“You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.”

“Sometimes a happy delusion is better than grim reality.”

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

“Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.”

“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.”

“He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil.
Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.”

“I’d spent my entire life overdosing on uncut escapism, willingly allowing fantasy to become my reality.”

“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.”

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

“Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.”

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”

“And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.”

“She took the facts and in a natural way charged them with tension; she intensified reality as she reduced it to words, she injected it with energy.”

“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.”

“The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality”

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.”

“A mathematical formula for happiness:Reality divided by Expectations. There were two ways to be happy:improve your reality or lower your expectations.”

“I am learning that a life isn't real unless someone else knows its reality. And I want my life to be real.”

“Life is sometimes novel-shaped, mocking the efforts of those authors who, in an effort to make their novels life-shaped, spurn the easy symmetry and cheap resonance of reality.”

“Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you… Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.”

“There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.”

“See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.”

“Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.”

“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.”

“We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.”

“Our focus has to be on changing reality, not changing laws.”

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”

“By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard it in an echo of the infuriated cries within him.”

“Choosing with integrity means finding ways to speak up that honor your reality, the reality of others, and your willingness to meet in the center of that large field. It’s hard sometimes.”

“He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)”

“I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.”

“Reality in strong doses frightens.”

“That was when I realized, as terrifying and painful as reality can be, it’s also the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality is real.”

“Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body falling loose, shaking free of the world of reality. Rain has the power to hypnotize.”

“From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?”

“You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.”

“… my conscience has the same hard reality as a unicorn.”

“The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.”

“Color is not a human or a personal reality; it is a political reality.”

“The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.”

“Thinking is the desire to gain reality by means of ideas.”

“And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.”

“You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”

“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.”

“He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside.”

“Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.”

“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”

“And you'll sit beside me, and we'll look, not at visions, but at realities.”

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.”

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much ugliness.”

“It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

“There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.”

“Reality denied comes back to haunt.”

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.”

“What if reality is nothing but some disease?”

“You say they create their own reality," said Veronika, "but what is reality?”

“Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.”

“You will soon discover that in matters of the heart, memories are much kinder than reality”

“If only I could fall
sound asleep and wake up in my old reality!”

“What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.”

“is a hundred percent accurate. Reality, however, is not as reliable.”

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”

“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”

“Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope.”

“No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.”

“Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.”

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.”

“Good fiction creates its own reality.”

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.”

“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”

“She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.”