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