Reality Quotes

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

~ Philip K. Dick

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

~ Tim Burton

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

~ Rachel Carson

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

~ John Lennon

Reality is frequently inaccurate.

~ Douglas Adams

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

~ Frank Herbert

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

~ John Keats

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

~ Douglas Adams

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

~ Shirley Jackson

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

~ Mark Twain

You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.

~ Neil Gaiman

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

~ T.s. Eliot

There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.

~ Hermann Hesse

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

~ Jodi Picoult

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination.

~ C.s. Lewis

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

~ Margaret Atwood

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

~ Marya Hornbacher

Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

~ Emilie Autumn

That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…

~ Jess C. Scott

Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neater. It just masks what is below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are.

~ Sarah Dessen

The world of reality has its limits, the world of imagination is boundless.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.

~ Simone Weil

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

~ John Gardner

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.

~ Darren Shan

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

~ Chuck Palahniuk

There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.— Great Expectations (1998) directed by Alfonso Cuarón

~ Mitch Glazer

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

~ Jandy Nelson

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.

~ Maya Angelou

I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.

~ Frida Kahlo

Reality's what other people dream for you.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

~ Neil Gaiman

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

~ Aldous Huxley

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

~ Virginia Woolf

Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.

~ Francesca Zappia

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

~ Leonard Cohen

Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there.

~ Adam Young

It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

~ Haruki Murakami

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

~ Anthony Burgess