Reality Quotes

You can love someone and not like spending time with them.

~ Will Fetters

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

~ Jesse Ball

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it

~ Henry James

Your mind builds your reality... based on anything you believe in.

~ Toba Beta

This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that.

~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.

~ Damon Galgut

life is a video game, only difference is that you don't always get three chances!

~ Siddhartha Choudhary

Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

~ Frank Kermode

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

~ Bruno Schulz

For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn retreat from waking reality, I do not know, but I woke only reluctantly to take a little food, falling at once back into a stupor of oblivion, as though the small, warm weight of broth in my stomach were an anchor that pulled me after it, down through the murky fathoms of sleep.

~ Diana Gabaldon

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

~ Alexander Mccall Smith

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

~ Jasper Fforde

All established order forms a line of resistance against the threat of rupture and places its meager forces at the service of continuity. That everything should continue as usual is the bourgeois standard of a reality that is indeed bourgeois precisely because it is a standard.

~ Julio Cortázar

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.

~ Toba Beta

At last.. You only regret the chances you didn't take.

~ Lovely Goyal

This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

~ Jim Berg

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

~ Alberto Caeiro

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.

~ Confucius

Upset The Established Order Of Your Life And Everything Becomes Chaos...To A Degree That You Wont Be Able To Differentiate Between Mere Illusions And Solid Reality

~ Sherif A. El-Mawardy

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

~ Agatha Christie

If you knew your potential to feel good, you would ask no one to be different so that you can feel good. You would free yourself of all of that cumbersome impossibility of needing to control the world, or control your mate, or control your child. You are the only one who creates your reality. For no one else can think for you, no one else can do it. It is only you, every bit of it you.

~ Esther Hicks

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

~ Julian Barnes

Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.

~ Alan W. Watts

If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream.

~ René Magritte

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

~ Mira Grant

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

~ Jean Genet

There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism, in fact you might say that science fiction is escape into reality... It's a fiction which does concern itself with real issues: the origin of man; our future. In fact I can't think of any form of literature which is more concerned with real issues, reality.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

Currently where you are is on a huge globe with a relatively thin crust of stone, containing fire in its bowels, rotating on its own slightly tilted axis at 1,000 miles per hour in an easterly direction while simultaneously traveling in orbit around an enormous ball of burning hydrogen, 93,000,000 miles away at 66,000 miles per hour. That’s 66,000 miles per hour, or nineteen miles per second, which is much faster that you’ve maybe ever imagined, and means that you will be traveling nearly 60,000,000 miles this coming year.Beauty is, you don’t have to imagine it, you can feel it instead. And if you want to know what it’s like, simply stop. Be still, and in that stillness, whatever you are feeling in your belly: that’s it. this is what it feels like to go 66,000 miles per hour while spinning at one thousand.

~ Stephen Russell

If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and rounded, as the chick must see the egg from the inside. And if you should peck through that shell (or find a door), what great and torrential light might shine through your opening at the end of space? Might you look through and discover our entire universe is but part of one atom on a blade of grass? Might you be forced to think that by burning a twig you incinerate an eternity of eternities? That existence rises not to one infinite but to an infinity of them?

~ Stephen King

Not all the magic of earth is benevolent.

~ Alden Bell

But then, that was the problem with pretty toy stitches. When real life got hold of them, they always tore out.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

You must now go home, where everything -- you can be quite sure -- will be falser than here....You must go now. You'll leave by the right, through the alley....

~ Jean Genet

Reality is based on, and controlled by, our thoughts.

~ Christine Rice

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

~ Oscar Wilde

I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other.

~ Shvaugn Craig

The exegesis Fat labored on month after month struck me as a Pyrrhic victory if there ever was one -- in this case an attempt by a beleaguered mind to make sense out of the inscrutable. Perhaps this is the bottom line to mental illness: incomprehensible events occur; your life becomes a bin for hoax-like fluctuations of what used to be reality. And not only that -- as if that weren't enough -- but you, like Fat, ponder forever over these fluctuations in an effort to order them into a coherency, when in fact the only sense they make is the sense you impose on them, out of necessity to restore everything into shapes and processes you can recognize. The first thing to depart in mental illness is the familiar. And what takes its place is bad news because not only can you not understand it, you also cannot communicate it to other people. The madman experiences something, but what it is or where it comes from he does not know.

~ Philip K. Dick

Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.

~ Clarence Day Jr.

The landscape looks different from every blade of grass.

~ Marty Rubin

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

~ Amit Abraham