Reality Quotes
Dr. Seuss
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
1503Arthur Conan Doyle
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
2733Al-Hasan Al-Basri
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.
3054Michelle Hodkin
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
1879Stacey Kade
The truth is, it's really only okay to be yourself if that self is within an accepted range of 'normal'.
2908Jourdane Erasquin
I miss you every minute of every day. If I could miss you more than that, I would.
2980Svetlana Alexievich
Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl-there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.
3490Marty Rubin
Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.
2857Eric Samuel Timm
Actions speak louder than words, in fact. When we don't take action, we foster the mistaken reality of our old identity.
4379Simona 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...
3020Jayme K.
Art does what reality cannot.
2426Effy Stonem
Everybody dances to their own boom boom.
4482Svetlana 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.
3642Jess C. Scott
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
2415Jess C. Scott
A fit, healthy body - that is the best fashion statement
1687Jess C. Scott
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.
2512Jess C. Scott
My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.
2982Jess C. Scott
Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.
4590Robin Williams
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.
4143Lao Tzu
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.
1913Red Haircrow
Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion.
2423Michel 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.
1578John Lennon
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?
3318Clive 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.
2674Jess 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?
2502Jourdane Erasquin
If you only knew how to respect my heart, I wouldn't have found a reason to let you go.
4754Roman 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.
2557Flannery 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.
2827Neil Gaiman
There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.
2283Jorge 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.
3234Joseph Conrad
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
3276Julian Barnes
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
2638Don 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.
4917Teresa Mummert
Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
1145Edward Abbey
[R]eality and real people are too subtle and complicated for anybody's typewriter, even Tolstoy's, even yours, even mine.
3057Stephen 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.
2053Bret 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.
3691Raghad 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?
1590Alan W. Watts
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
2024Tom Althouse
Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.
3224Tom 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.
3944Tom 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.
4963Tom 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.
1015Richard 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.
3006Michael Bassey Johnson
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.
4238Alberto Caeiro
And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting -
In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.
3851Lolly Daskal
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.
4868Lolly Daskal
The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.
4699Lolly Daskal
Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.
3932Alan Sheinwald
Life is like butter - when things cool down it can be reshaped
3508Nirav Sanchaniya
A Writer is Actor, Creator, Director & Producer Of HIS Life. Ask ME anything.
4176Christopher 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.
3206Holly 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.
1484Thomm 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.
1638Don Roff
Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
3035Neil 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.
3168Jack 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.
2971Roger Zelazny
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
1903Elizabeth 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.
4966Lev 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.
4773Lewis Carroll
But, said Alice, if the world has absolutely no sense, who's stopping us from inventing one?
3152T.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.
2332Mike 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.
1233Alan W. Watts
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
3864Pablo 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.
2320Grant 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.
1694R. 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.
1703Anthony Liccione
Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.
1592Swaraj 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.
4168Zack 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.
2019Jonathan Friesen
The moment was surreal. A sometimes-autistic young man with two identities lecturing a room full of zombies on feelings and realities.
1850Bobby Darnell
Follow your passion? Sure...but for most one needs to follow their passion after work and on weekends.
2299Hussein Abdallah
The things that may change our world to make better; smiling, helping, respecting, loving & forgiving.
1463Isabella Poretsis
Never expect to be given anything, other than love, for free in your life because if you do you will fail.
2172Ram Mohan
Everyone is honest in their own right.. people begin to lie only when they are compelled to do it for others.
1046Marty Rubin
It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.
2103Marty Rubin
What happens is always worth more than words.
2168David Jascha
We were not actually famous, I have to add. People were just drunk.
1747David Jascha
It was all fine until the girls started drinking. (Everything is always fine up until that point.)
1973Unarine Ramaru
There is nothing wrong with dreaming, but there is everything wrong with dreaming without any intention to make the dream a reality.
1989Edward 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.
3407Álvaro 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.
1438Lois Lowry
But there's a whole world waiting, still, and there are good things in it.
2255Nirav 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.
2132Sara Sheridan
I am more one for the story, I think, than the action.
4091Grace Fiorre
After all, I had been waiting decades for it to come. I wanted to escape this world, but only it could help me.
2473Garrett McCoy
We may be born equal but we do not prepare equally...
1172Roberta 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.
4005Sara Sheridan
I'm a novelist by trade and my job is to write a story rather than reconstruct actual events.
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