Reality Quotes

Tragedy makes you disable, but your attitude towards tragedy keeps you disable.

~ Sarvesh Jain

When was the last time you kissed somebody new. If you can tackle that fear, you've nothing to fear.

~ Sarvesh Jain

If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality, if only...however sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.

~ Dalal Gebara

I’m not thankful for being fucked over, I’m thankful for what I took from it. What I learned. What I taught myself in that particular moment. I'm grateful someone was able to take me there and let me be in that moment - not with them, but with myself. How my emotions could surrender to someone and make me feel everything I felt. It destroyed me, but I made my way through; and I look back years from, and I still love him, I do.

~ Dominic Riccitello

I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Maybe I hold on for too long, but maybe you don’t hold on for long enough?

~ Dominic Riccitello

Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Sometimes you go do the opposite things anyway because in actuality... The whole time you've been wanting to hear the right thing from a person that will stop you.

~ Shailee J-N

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (...) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the world, then?’‘An illusion,’ replied Altaïr. ‘One we can either submit to – as most do – or transcend.’‘And what is it to transcend?’'To recognize that laws arise not from divinity, but reason. I understand now that our Creed does not command us to be free.’ And suddenly he really did understand. ‘It commands us to be wise

~ Oliver Bowden

Writing has become more than just a profession, and hobby…it has become a way to express my feelings and pour my entire soul into the pages of my books. Thank God for the little things in life that makes us feel infinite and tranquil…the little things that make way for us to escape reality and enter new worlds that we create. -Nina Jean Slack

~ Nina Jean Slack

Life can be hard in the real world.

~ Jenny B. Jones

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

~ Michelle M. Pillow

Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.

~ Shannon L. Alder

You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous. You cannot be loving if you are not courageous. You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous. You cannot inquire into reality if you are not courageous. Hence courage comes first and everything else follows.

~ Osho

Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer.

~ Shannon L. Alder

They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel.

~ Auliq Ice

I have, and always will, respect people that keep it real no matter what. Most people say “Just keep it real with me,” but the fact of the matter is this: Most people can’t handle the truth, don’t want to accept the truth, deny the truth, or simply aren’t willing to face THEIR truth. The next time that you tell somebody to be honest with you, make sure that you mean what you say. Have the courage to pay more attention, listen, and observe. But have greater courage to acknowledge “what is” and face YOUR truth with boldness. The truth is better than a lie any day. Be fearless!

~ Stephanie Lahart

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

~ Criss Jami

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

~ Tom Althouse

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

~ Tom Althouse

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

~ Tom Althouse

Whatever your difficulty, whatever your hardship in life: Dance and make the song you sing your prayer. Sing it courageously, and with each step strengthen yourself with the knowledge and wisdom of your elders, so that whatever next happens, you can survive and not lose your rhythm.

~ Red Haircrow

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

~ Tom Althouse

You can’t be friends with someone you have feelings for. It’ll just be a constant reminder of what you can’t have. It’s like putting boiling water in an ice cold glass. It’s gonna bust and make a mess.

~ Jaime Reed

The words ‘I love you’ are worthless when you don’t know who the 'I' is in that statement.

~ Jaime Reed

I’d have to prove to everyone, including Ellia, that I was more than some guy she used to know, that what we shared had and still mattered. She may have forgotten the promise we made on the beach, but I hadn’t, and it was up to me to backup those words with action. Memories and ghosts were for the dead. Living things moved, and I was never one to stand still. ~Liam

~ Jaime Reed

She was my go-to person. I’d tell her everything. Now, all of those late-night phone calls, all the sleepovers at her house because I couldn’t deal with stuff at home, all the crying on her shoulder. It’s all gone. It’s like if she doesn’t know, then it didn’t happen, and if it didn’t happen then what exactly am I holding on to?” ~Stacey

~ Jaime Reed

Who cares about fault? As my dad would say, ‘Blame is like your rear-end and reflection. Seeing either always leaves you looking back.’ I’m more worried about what’s in front of me. And right now . . . the view is all messed up.” ~ Ellia

~ Jaime Reed

It’s like returning to a familiar room and noticing objects had been moved while you were gone—a chair here, a picture frame there. Items that were once brand new were suddenly broken in and worn from age. It was all very subtle, but enough to suspect paranormal activity or a cruel practical joke. When no one else saw what you saw, the freak factor really kicked in, because you were singled out and left questioning reality. ~Ellia

~ Jaime Reed

Hope can be foolish or misguided, but there was no such thing as false hope. Hope was always true even when there was no evidence to support its claim.” - Liam

~ Jaime Reed

Love is not for thrill-seekers, dreamers, or children with short attention spans. And you, son, fit into all three of those categories.

~ Jaime Reed

Are you in love with him?’She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.‘Are you in love with me?’She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

~ Tan Redding

Talking to you is like talking to someone I’ve never met before. When did you become so competitive? When did you decide that you needed to win all of the time?’He stopped dead in the promenade and grabbed her hand, turning her to face him.He caught her by surprise. She leant her neck backwards slightly in defence.‘When I lost you.

~ Tan Redding

I want to get lose in your eyes and be brought back to reality with your kisses.

~ Shailee J-N

Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.

~ Bobby Darnell

In the search for truth,what you believe matters lessthan how you believe.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

~ Allie Burke

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

~ Philip K. Dick