Reality Quotes

What you persistently think becomes your reality.

~ Debasish Mridha

You see your preconceived ideas and your thoughts—not the reality.

~ Debasish Mridha

To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.

~ Dejan Stojanovic

I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty and there I make it work.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

~ Julian Barnes

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

~ William Carlos Williams

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bedAnd sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.(I think I made you up inside my head.)

~ Sylvia Plath

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.

~ Marty Rubin

I fall asleepCall it deep while all is well be-Cause my life seems like a freestyle mean-While asleep on the couch I dream it's a written piece and nowThe symphony's soundingShouting out to these feet whose leaps feel foul but quite loudBut howI'm allowed to live my dreamsMy Chimeran team brings the Siberian breedRiding reality free 'til these tires they freezeIn mires in dire need of wires, fire and heat butI love a dark, hard cold heart in the wintery breeze

~ Criss Jami

I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and yet still spend most of my time in the better reality of my mind.

~ Kevin Walker

Faith is the poetry of our dreams, action is the builder of our reality.

~ Steve Maraboli

A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.

~ Criss Jami

Whatever you do needs a true you.

~ Auliq Ice

Spirituality isn't some quaint stepchild of an intelligent worldview, or the only option for those of us not smart enough to understand the facts of the real world. Spirituality reflects the most sophisticated mindset, and the most powerful force available for the transformation of human suffering.

~ Marianne Williamson

Look Below and You'll feel Rich,Look Above and You'll feel Poor

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

When a person believes that a God is truly concerned about the well-being of life on earth, and especially of human life, the belief adorns that person with various positive psychological elements such as emotional stability, in times of distress and a highly functional moral compass. Here this belief has nothing to do with reality whatsoever, rather it serves the evolutionary purpose of self-preservation.

~ Abhijit Naskar

I must not imagine what is ‘not’ as a means of escaping what ‘is’. Rather, I must understand what ‘is’ and imagine how I can make it what it is ‘not’.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

~ Flannery O'connor

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

~ Neil Gaiman

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.

~ Jorge Luis Borges

A writing may be lost, a lie may be written, but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

~ Joseph Conrad

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.

~ Don Delillo

Remember William Blake who said: Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.The truth is, life itself, is always startling, strange, unexpected. But when the truth is told about it everybody knows at once that it is life itself and not made up.But in ordinary fiction, movies, etc, everything is smoothed out to seem plausible--villains made bad, heroes splendid, heroines glamorous, and so on, so that no one believes a word

~ Brenda Ueland

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.

~ Teresa Mummert

[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.

~ Edward Abbey

What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires.

~ Stephen King

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track.

~ Bret Easton Ellis

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

~ Alan W. Watts

Just as it is knownThat an image of one's face is seenDepending on a mirrorBut does not really exist as a face,So the conception of I existsDependent on mind and body,But like the image of a faceThe I does not at all exist as its own reality.

~ Nāgārjuna

The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.

~ Linda Leaming

What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himself has done before you. Just as you leave things out of your dreams and fantasies. By leaving things out, we bring beauty and excitement into the world. We evidently handle our reality by effecting some sort of compromise with it, an in-between state where the emotions prevent each other from reaching their fullest intensity, graying the colors somewhat. Children who haven't yet reached that point of control are both happier and unhappier than adults who have. And yes, stupid people also leave things out, which is why ignorance is bliss. So I propose, to begin with, that we try to love each other as if we were characters in a novel who have met in the pages of a book. Let's in any case leave off all the fatty tissue that plumps up reality.

~ Robert Musil

You took life by the horns and tried to hold on tight, for fear of being ripped to shreds, left bloodied and battered.

~ Holly Hood

In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imagination, Goes a heart full of gold creation, It's never late to have a dream. Nor is it so far away as it seems, And, like a rearview mirror reveals, Thus a fantasy soon becomes real. It may be closer than it appears. Or at least it will show up clear. Never give up a dream for fear!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

The distance between your Dreams and Reality is inversely proportional to your Efforts.

~ Vineet Raj Kapoor

What Is A Belief?

~ Maxime Daigle

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.

~ Clive Barker

Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.

~ Bede Griffiths

Belief is otiose reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.

~ Martin Amis

Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.

~ Jonathan Franzen

Choosing comfort over knowledge is a sign of a weak mind..

~ Danilo Vukovljak