Reality Quotes

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it?

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world.Not my world.I petted Pilot. I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.

~ Alex Flinn

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

~ Donna Goddard

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

~ David Eagleman

It is the absence of hope, which equals the despair that is the punishment.

~ James Fox

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu.- Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

~ Mullk Raj Anand

A realist is a slave to reality.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

So that originally, and Naturally, there is no such thing as Slavery. Joseph was rightfully no more a Slave to his brethren, then they were to him: and they no more Authority to Sell him, than they had to Slay him. [Genesis 37].

~ Samuel Sewall

Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.

~ Steven Redhead

The use of drugs is not an effective means of facilitating real escape. It merely gives that erroneous and illusive impression. Well, illusive with an I and elusive with an E. At best, narcotics do no more than promote bonhomie and give you a temporary taste of what freedom might be like; and drugs take you into another sub-level of, or sub-culture in, the same old game. The same old game, but with additional consequences. And at worst, well ... suffice it to say that you really, really do not want to go there.

~ H.m. Forester

We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected. He wondered how much of the garbage that Donna had overheard he had seriously meant. He wondered how much of the insanity of the day--his insanity--had been real, or just induced as a contact lunacy, by the situation. Donna, always, was a pivot point of reality for him; for her this was the basic, natural question. He wished he could answer.

~ Philip K. Dick

I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born. Detesting both, I choose neither; but since I must on occasion either dream or act, I mix the two things together.

~ Fernando Pessoa

A bitter awareness that everything is a sensation of mine and at the same time something external, something not in my power to change. Ah, how often my own dreams have raised up before me as things, not to replace reality but to declare themselves its equal

~ Pessoa

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality.

~ Kristian Kan

But I felt like I'd made a journey to the land of fairytales only to find out that the magical world was identical to the real one. Even in fairytales, the sun still burns, sand still works its way into your bikini bottoms, and the diner next door to your motel still scorches toast.

~ Holly Schindler

Quite aside from supernatural experiences, after having given this much thought and extensive consideration, I am quite certain that it is Christianity that is based in Objective Reality and Truth and is therefore validpp

~ R. Alan Woods

But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.

~ Umair Naeem

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.

~ Lionel Suggs

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

~ Vernor Vinge

Love must face realityIf it is to survive

~ Loretta Livingstone

The world, as it is, is not a permanent reality, but is a temporary product of our choices as creators.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.

~ Arthur Gordon

Art does what reality cannot.

~ Jayme K.

Confirming what you see as reality...is a true sign of your arrogance.

~ Lionel Suggs

It's why you need other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you feel real.

~ Lauren Beukes

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

~ Evelyn Underhill

Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.

~ Abbi Glines

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

~ Dennis R. Miller

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

~ J.g. Ballard

Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

~ Arundhati Roy

Yesterday's faults become today's lessons. Today's dreams become tomorrow's reality.

~ B.j. Neblett

When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity. (Could the milk man be the devil? )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Do not just look, but you should also observe.

~ Ainun Annisa

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It’s so formulaic and unsurprising that you wouldn’t dare re-create it in a movie. All the critics would mock it. They’d all say the screenwriter was a hack who didn’t even try. This is why movies have less value than we like to pretend — movies can’t show reality, because honest depictions of reality offend intelligent people.

~ Chuck Klosterman

I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan offering to carry me off to the Neverland of soulfinders and happily ever after. But he was too late. Last night i had to grew up and I now knew that such dreams did not exist; real life was more like living with Captain Hook's mercenary pirates than playing happy families in a treehouse

~ Joss Stirling

Some one asked me today to explain Soul Mates I said Well if all the energy was created at the same time as they say. Then all souls and spirits and such would be the same age. The only way you could say then if your a so called Old Soul, it would mean you have played the game more than others. Then some where along the way the person your attracted to was there with you one or many times playing the game also. Yet the experiences you shared could of been in many different life applications, not just Lovers.

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.

~ G.k. Chesterton

There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.

~ H.m. Forester