Top 100 And Reality Quotes
#1. Dream takes you to skies and reality just to the bed.
M.F. Moonzajer
#2. I believe that God and reality are too big for my poor words.
Pat Buckley
#3. My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.
Lykke Li
#4. Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Herman Wouk
#5. I never cross-pollinate fantasy and reality.
Penny Reid
#6. As we practice, we begin to know the difference between our fantasy and reality.
Pema Chodron
#8. Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.
Stephen Bayley
#9. The Hitler Myth': Image and Reality in the Third Reich,
Anonymous
#10. I made some studies, and reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle, I found it too confining. It was just too needful; it expected me to be there for it all the time, and with all I have to do
I had to let something go.
Jane Wagner
#11. Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#12. In moments of crisis, the reason people say that things move in slow motion is that the brain is struggling to process too much information at once. As a result, the brain slows it all down to digest each bit of emotion, pain, and reality.
Brad Meltzer
#13. Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The more self-aware you are, the less likely you are to be vulnerable to your illusions. The more aware you are, the more you can do with your life.
Robert H. Bolton
#14. Perception is a prism, and reality is like shot silk - depends where the light hits.
Jennifer Stone
#15. I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.
Tony Dungy
#16. I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.
Woody Allen
#17. If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
Richard Eyre
#18. The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#19. In place of moral absolutes, they promote moral relativism and sometimes even question the very existence of truth and reality. To them truth and reality are what we subjectively perceive them to be.
Ben Shapiro
#20. Even when people aren't suffering from illness or aging, our unfulfilled cravings and the cessation of temporary pleasures, as well as the dissonance between our expectations and reality, lead to dukkha.
Sara Wilson
#21. Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital ... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses you've woven, you'll never get rid of the stain.
Jodi Picoult
#22. We commonly think of freedom as the ability to define alternatives and choose between them. The creative mind exceeds this liberty in being able to redefine itself and reality at large, generating whole new sets of alternatives.
Robert Grudin
#23. Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
Belva Davis
#24. To free one's self from preconceived notions, prejudices, and conditioned responses is essential to understanding truth and reality.
Bruce Lee
#25. At liminality, at a transitional point between his last night dream and reality, he realizes he has made a big mistake and happiness is possible without death. (Coming back to himself.)
Lara Biyuts
#26. Reagan's easy slippage between movies and reality is synechdochic for a political culture increasingly impervious to distinctions between fiction and history.
Michael Rogin
#27. If one cannot tell a difference between fantasy and reality, it is either that one or a society around mentally ill
Uri Norwich
#28. Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.
Charles Burnett
#29. Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.
Penn Jillette
#30. I am very interested in that fine line between fiction and reality and between comedy and tragedy - and pushing the line as much as possible.
Jill McCorkle
#31. Marriage is a strange combination of dream and reality, and we spend our lives as couples trying to negotiate that divide.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.
Joseph Alexander Leighton
#34. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
Maurice Sendak
#35. The greatest stories appeal to our deepest selves, the parts of us snobbery can't reach, the parts that connect the child to the adult and the brain to the heart and reality to dreams. Stories, at their essence, are enemies of snobbery. And a book snob is the enemy of the book.
Matt Haig
#36. I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the gap - at least in the books I was reading - between what people tell stories about and what I actually feel. I started thinking about a gap between fantasy and reality.
Signe Baumane
#37. Language and reality are kept strictly apart - reality is tough, unyielding stuff, and it doesn't care what you think or feel or say about it. Or it shouldn't.
Lev Grossman
#38. The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.
Adolf Loos
#40. Taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?
Ravi Zacharias
#41. There's a lot more people out there than you would think who cannot differentiate between TV and reality. I do think there's a lot of people out there who think I'm a nasty human being.
Torrey DeVitto
#42. The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is.
C. G. Jung
#43. The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
Lady Gaga
#44. Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.
Justin Podur
#46. You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
Lew Wasserman
#47. When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.
Michelle Ryan
#48. The secret to #success lies in the gap between dream and reality.
Bret Michaels
#49. For in the depths of grief, sometimes one cannot tell the difference between illusion and reality.
Malinda Lo
#50. You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
Victor Garber
#51. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Tom Clancy
#52. But in the prevalent discussion of classes, there are illegitimate transitions to the notions of a 'nexus' and of a 'proposition'. The appeal to a class to perform the services of a proper entity is exactly analogous to an appeal to an imaginary terrier to kill a real rat.
Process and Reality
Alfred North Whitehead
#54. Perception and reality are soul mates! They always support each other and even like to hide behind each other.
Balroop Singh
#55. Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.
Alan Watts
#56. For some, reassessing concepts about truth and reality can be a scary proposition.
Mark Ireland
#57. Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.
Stephen King
#58. Psychosis is a gross disturbance in an individual's ability to distinguish self from reality. For schizophrenics, the membrane between imagination and reality is so porous that having an idea and having an experience are not particularly different.
Andrew Solomon
#59. Most people have some means of filling up the gap between perception and reality, and, after all, in those circumstances there are far worse things than gin.
Terry Pratchett
#60. Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
Jalal Talabani
#61. For me, being on set is no different than being at a dinner table or riding the subway next to someone; inevitably their life story is always more compelling than most ads in magazines and most commercials and reality TV and all the stuff we're sold and told is valuable.
Victoria Mahoney
#62. Another religious fanatic to whom facts and reality took second place to dogma.
Peter F. Hamilton
#63. Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
Abraham Cahan
#64. When we will think deeply, then we will realize that enjoyment is short lasting and reality of it is suffering.
Bhakti Charu Swami
#65. The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams.
Marcel Proust
#66. Sometimes, when there's been an accident and reality is too sudden and strange to comprehend, the surreal will take over. Action slows to a dreamlike glide, frame by frame; the motion of a hand, a sentence spoken, fills an eternity.
Donna Tartt
#67. Where does fiction end and reality begin?
Dean Koontz
#68. [Christ] is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#69. Awesome, Monk have a brother from the film Monk 2000, however... what makes you think that film and reality are different?
Deyth Banger
#70. Ties to people on the other side of the storm could be severed. Love could bud, then wither and die without a bloom when the storm ended and reality bled back in.
Sarah Winter
#71. There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.
Friedrich Durrenmatt
#72. Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without any mediation of any thought, seeing without Buddha standing between you and reality, or Krishna, or Christ.
Rajneesh
#73. Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
Lois Lowry
#74. The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
Tom Hodgkinson
#75. But pessimism and reality are usually mistaken for each other
Anna Banks
#76. Causes have effects, and if we lie to ourselves and to others, then we cannot expect to find truth and reality whenever we happen to want them. If we have chosen the way of falsity we must not be surprised that truth eludes us when we finally come to need it! O
Thomas Merton
#77. And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us.
Adam Phillips
#78. The point of life is to find the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality.
Lillian Smith
#79. one can no longer distinguish between history and reality after the absinthe goes in the punch.
Beatriz Williams
#80. Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.
Edmundo Desnoes
#81. Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.
Stephen King
#82. People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality.
Shelley Conn
#83. Sometimes I worry that there's not enough room in my brain for both my dreams and reality that I'm a hard drive with limited gigabytes and one day I won't be able to maintain the firewall between them. I wonder if that's what senility is.
Karen Marie Moning
#84. The sins after the Devil's heart are the intricacies of spiritual pride, the mazes of self-deception, and the subtle mockeries of hypocrisy where mask hides behind mask behind mask and reality is lost altogether.
Alan W. Watts
#85. I read a bit of the Icelandic sagas. They're fascinating in that they are completely ordinary. The farmer will go off into the hills and fight a troll, and then go back and do ordinary things. It's an odd mix of fantasy and reality.
Jonathan Stroud
#86. Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
Heisenberg
#88. There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing
William James
#89. In art, truth and reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for being constrained, controlled and compressed.
Henri Matisse
#90. Enforcement alone does not work. Unless we address the gap between our immigration laws and reality, illegal immigration will not stop and the situation on the border will continue to be chaotic.
Harry Reid
#91. There is only one certain test of the virtue and that is humiliation. The acceptance of humiliation alone shows the depth and reality of our humility.
Nivard Kinsella
#92. Soul mates, I've always believed in, so I accepted the truth there. But curses? That was extreme. There had to be a place where the line was drawn between fiction and reality, and a curse sounded way more on the fiction side of the spectrum.
Michelle Madow
#94. when there is a difference between perception and reality, perception always wins. Behind
Steven Fink
#95. In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
#96. Changing your mind is okay. It shows wisdom and maturity. Never wavering from a belief no matter what is a mistake. What matters is trying to be as closely aligned with truth and reality as you can be at all times. And that requires many navigational adjustments over a lifetime.
Guy P. Harrison
#98. Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.
Ramana Maharshi
#100. The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive ... and begin to act accordingly.
Shakti Gawain
