Reality Quotes

Dr. Seuss

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.

Al-Hasan Al-Basri

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was
The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it.

Michelle Hodkin

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

Stacey Kade

The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.

Ashly Lorenzana

All we know is what we're told.

Jourdane Erasquin

I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.

Svetlana Alexievich

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl-there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.. Svetlana Alexievich
Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl-there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Marty Rubin

Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.. Marty Rubin
Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.

Eric Samuel Timm

Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken
Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.

Simona Panova

Even I don’t know myself... In fact, I don’t know if I really have a self at all, as I’m constantly playing different roles and pretending – not so much on stage as in real life...

Jayme K.

Art does what reality cannot.

Sandra Chami Kassis

Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.. Sandra Chami Kassis
Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.

Effy Stonem

I'm officially off the rails.

Effy Stonem

Everybody dances to their own boom boom.

Svetlana Alexievich

Reality has always attracted me like a magnet, tortured and hypnotized me, and I wanted to capture it on paper. So I immediately appropriated this genre of actual human voices and confessions, witness evidences and documents. This is how I hear and see the world—as a chorus of individual voices and a collage of everyday details. In this way all my mental and emotional potential is realized to the full. In this way I can be simultaneously a writer, reporter, sociologist, psychologist and preacher.

Jess C. Scott

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

Gabriel García Márquez

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.. Gabriel García Márquez
nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Jess C. Scott

A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement. Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement

Jess C. Scott

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care
V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

Jess C. Scott

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.

Jess C. Scott

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

Robin Williams

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Jess C. Scott

Please, touch me, I pray.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Red Haircrow

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.

Michel Houellebecq

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality and don’t care to know any more.

John Lennon

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Jessamyn West

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

John Lennon

Nothing is real.. John Lennon
Nothing is real.

Clive Barker

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Jess C. Scott

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

Christy Leigh Stewart

Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.

Jourdane Erasquin

If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.

Roman Payne

When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.

Timothy M. Brenner

Action is what makes hope a reality.

Flannery O'Connor

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.

Neil Gaiman

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

Jorge Luis Borges

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.

Joseph Conrad

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

Julian Barnes

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

Don DeLillo

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.

Teresa Mummert

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

Edward Abbey

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

Stephen King

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.

Bret Easton Ellis

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.

Raghad Khalil

as kids we counted on our fingers, as we grew up we started counting more on people, now what do you think was more disappointing?

Alan W. Watts

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

Tom Althouse

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

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

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

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.

Richard Dawkins

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.

The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Reality is the manifestation of the inner workings, carried out by the supreme powers. Whatever you
Reality is the manifestation of the inner workings, carried out by the supreme powers. Whatever you think and do right now, either positive or negative is working on your behalf because you are a co-worker of the divine.

Alberto Caeiro

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

Shannon A. Thompson

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

Lolly Daskal

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Lolly Daskal

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Lolly Daskal

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

Alan Sheinwald

Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped

Nirav Sanchaniya

A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.

Christopher Hawke

The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times are full, beautiful and meaningful beyond words, even when wrapped in pain.

Holly Sprink

What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a script for a play of our lives that runs about a month ahead of actual life; if reality varies from what we've created in our minds we disengage or pout.

Thomm Quackenbush

Maybe the world didn’t need witches and wolves, because the world itself did more to steal away the magic than fantasy ever could. It didn’t matter if one was disobedient, foolish, or unlucky, because the worst things just happened.

Don Roff

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.

Rick Riordan

The real world is where the monsters are.

Neil Gaiman

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and hunger.

Jack Kerouac

Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

Roger Zelazny

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Lev Grossman

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

Lewis Carroll

But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?

T.J. Mihaila

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own.

Mike Norton

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Alan W. Watts

In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.

Pablo Tusset

To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain entity about which we know nothing except that it bears the name of "all that which does not exist.

Grant Morrison

Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or make us angry enough to change the world.

R. N. Prasher

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of illusion and reality, trees and forests can offer no help.

Anthony Liccione

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an
Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

Swaraj Priyadarshi

The world is moving at a slow pace. Each day I get up and I feel the world must have moved ahead far but, unfortunately, it remains at the same point each day.

Zack Love

Because in the end, we die. It’s like Chekhov observed in so many of his plays: ‘in two hundred years, no one will even know we were here.

Jonathan Friesen

The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.

Bobby Darnell

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

Hussein Abdallah

The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.

Isabella Poretsis

Never expect to be given anything, other than love, for free in your life because if you do you will fail.

Ram Mohan

Everyone is honest in their own right.. people begin to lie only when they are compelled to do it for others.

Marty Rubin

It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.. Marty Rubin
It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.

Marty Rubin

What happens is always worth more than words.. Marty Rubin
What happens is always worth more than words.

David Jascha

We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.

David Jascha

It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)

Unarine Ramaru

There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.

Jerril Thomas Abraham

Change everything you can,so that nothing else is changed.

Edward Hirsch

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, ‘You’re out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?’ But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

Álvaro De Campos

Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poets say what they think they should feel.

Lois Lowry

But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.

Nirav Sanchaniya

Stop being self-conscious when you write.
You are the expert about the world you are creating,
no one else. So be bold and write on.

Sara Sheridan

I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.

Grace Fiorre

After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.

Garrett McCoy

We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally...

Roberta Pearce

. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along, and with it, a whole lot of prose.

Sara Sheridan

I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.

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