Top 100 Better Than Reality Quotes
#1. Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.
Karl Lagerfeld
#3. The whole scene had an imaginary quality to it. I knew that it was real, but at the same time it was better than reality, more nearly a projection of what I wanted from reality than anything I had experienced before.
Paul Auster
#4. I like imagination
and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be
better than reality.
Karl Lagerfeld
#5. Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
Andy Warhol
#6. You know you're in lust when you're quick to fall into a reverie because dreams seem better than reality.
Emmanuel Aghado
#7. She kept hoping Mulder and Scully would kiss each other well and good. Having a relationship vicariously through fantasy and excellent scripting was all Aggie had at the moment - and to be honest, it wasn't all that bad. Her imagination was always better than reality ...
Marjorie M. Liu
#8. My life used to be boring. A damnation here, a curse there, with an occasional blight or two to break routine. Now I have Aisling ... She's better than reality TV, Internet porn sites, and the trashloids all put together.' - Jim
Katie MacAlister
#9. Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.
Margaret Atwood
#10. People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#11. Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this reality, civilization becomes clearer and unfortunately, more distressing.
D.A. Blankinship
#12. Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
Bill Vaughan
#13. We must content ourselves with the mystery, the absurdity, the contradictions, the hostility, but also the generosity that our environment offers us. It's not much, but it's always better than the deadly, defeatist certainty of the paranoid.
Philip K. Dick
#14. There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven't noticed already.
Robert Anton Wilson
#15. Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang
#16. It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality.
Mark Gonzales
#17. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality.
Tom Felton
#18. Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would.
Baltasar Gracian
#19. We're all monsters, sweetheart. Some of us just hide it better than others.
Bethany-Kris
#20. Better be a desperate single with options than a desperate married with no options.
Amen Muffler
#21. The only friend you can ever have that understands you better than anyone else is you".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#22. But stranger than that was the feeling he had, that everything had been worth it, that all his miseries were going to end, that he was going to a life that would be as good as, perhaps better than, anything he had read about in books.
Hanya Yanagihara
#23. The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.
Brian Schmidt
#24. OK, I say again, not really understanding what it is I am agreeing to, what it is precisely I am accepting. But I am accepting something. The truth of my circumstances? The reality I have until now avoided? It's much worse than I imagined and also somehow better.
Bill Clegg
#25. Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.
Jessie Burton
#26. When we ask for the abolition of the State and its organs we are always told that we dream of a society composed of men better than they are in reality. But no; a thousand times, no. All we ask is that men should not be made worse than they are, by such institutions!
Peter Kropotkin
#27. Sometimes the memory of someone is better than the reality of them.
Steve Maraboli
#28. Look At Only The Reality Because Reality Is Better Than Fantasy
Sushil Singh
#29. It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for.
Steve Maraboli
#30. I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.
James Baldwin
#31. Sometimes our fantasies are better than our realities.
Jenna Alatari
#32. Is it not better to live in dreams and realize it than to live in reality and forget to dream?
Debasish Mridha
#33. A father gives his child nothing better than a good education
Anonymous
#35. At the end of the day, there's probably nothing that makes me feel better than junk food and reality TV.
Jennifer Lawrence
#36. Some managers are able to let go of the past better than others. Those that have the greatest difficulty abandoning things are often those unable to face reality.
Henry Cloud
#38. Without stories, reality would destroy us. She says stories and myths and heroes challenge us to be worthy of a larger reality. To listen to the better angels of our nature. To be more than what we are.
Abigail Strom
#39. It's not often for me that reality is better than fantasy. This is one of those times. Reed next to me, in my bed, breathing against my chest. She was the Diane Court to my Lloyed Dobler.
Lila Felix
#40. sometimes even the worst dreams are better than this reality
Connor Franta
#41. Maybe I trust you to be a man and handle the gray reality of truth better than all these kids who still think in black-and-white."
Commander Zeke Waters from The Only Way Out Is In
Lyn Gala
#42. Anxiety is an even better teacher than reality, for one can temporarily evade reality by avoiding the distasteful situation; but anxiety is a source of education always present because one carries it within.
Rollo May
#44. Isn't a beautiful dream better than a cruel reality?
Philip K. Dick
#45. People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
Charles Bukowski
#46. Reality show? You can't find anything better than boxing because of the trials and errors, the ups and downs, the struggle when you get knocked down to get back up. Use it symbolically and interchangeably for life.
Don King
#47. Reality is overrated and impossible to understand with any degree of certainty. What you do know for sure is that some ways of looking at the world work better than others. Pick the way that works, even if you don't know why.
Scott Adams
#48. If reality is hard and flat and unjust, then it's better to adjust to what really is than to complain that it isn't what you wish. That was what made me lose faith ... But having lost it, soon I doubted my lack of faith. There were niggling hints of meaning everywhere.
Brent Weeks
#49. People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.
Siri Hustvedt
#50. Life is better than any movie or TV show. In real life there is no plot and there are billions of characters.
Marc Pamittan
#51. I like writing fiction better than anything, because just being a writer of fiction gives you an absolutely unassailable protection against reality; nothing is ever seen clearly or starkly, but always through a thin veil of words.
Shirley Jackson
#52. To chart a course, one must have a direction. In reality, the eye is no better than the philosophy behind it. The photographer creates, evolves a better, a more selective, more acute seeing eye by looking ever more sharply at what is going on in the world.
Berenice Abbott
#53. Never ignore others because you are opportune to find yourself in a much better state than them; you just never know what the future holds".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#54. Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
Brad Boney
#55. Milton was right,' said my Teacher. 'The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery. There is always something they prefer to joy - that is, to reality.
C.S. Lewis
#56. The reality is you must realize that this was a choice made by the impostor. We all have choices, and there is always a better solution than to steal. They have chosen to sacrifice you for their own needs.
Linda Foley
#57. There's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work. But it's funny - nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose.
Jack Nicholson
#58. The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Some things worked far better in imagination than reality. In imagination, she was intrepid and resourceful; in reality she wished she were home, wrapped in a quilt.
Lauren Willig
#60. Sometimes reality is better than dreams
Kay Hooper
#61. I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.
Jim Palmer
#62. If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#63. I really like Google+ it's much better than face book. The only game you can play on it is life. Which is a game that can only be played and never won.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#64. In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).
Julio Cortazar
#65. If you want to be a successful writer you have to put your butt in the chair and your fingers on the keyboard and put words on the page. Even shitty words are better than no words. You can go back and fix them later.
Liliana Hart
#66. Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.
Nicholson Baker
#67. Man must always imagine and believe in a "second" reality or a better world than the one that is given him by nature.
Ernest Becker
#68. It is better to be the weird one than the one people say negative things about.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#69. If fiction does not show us a better life than reality, what is the good of it?
Amelia Barr
#70. Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
Warren Spector
#71. Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
Rosie Thomas
#72. I know better than anyone that sometimes a possibility is enough to keep a person going, even if it never becomes a reality.
Sophie Hannah
#73. Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#74. Fiction described reality better than non-fiction.
Tommy Wallach
#75. The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will be the geometry most important for applied mathematics.
G.H. Hardy
#76. An ugly woman that honors you is better than a beautiful woman that dishonors you".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#77. This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia.
Brad Warner
#78. I don't for one moment believe that these folks believe that it is better for an infant or a toddler to be in day care than to be home with Mom. I do believe that these folks feel guilty for not wanting to be at home, so they devise a new reality to compensate for their uncomfortable feelings.
Laura Schlessinger
#79. Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.
Angie Thomas
#80. The reality of love is better than its reputation.
Nina George
#81. It's better to hang around people that want to see you succeed than to hang around those that threatens your success.
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#82. You have always and will always be my first. My first love, the first girl I ever kissed, the first girl I ever touched. The mind is a powerful thing, and I know for a fact the fantasy of you will always be better than the reality of anyone else. You are my heart. You are my saviour. You are my sky.
J.B. Hartnett
#83. In dunya, the image is always better than the reality. In Jennah, the Reality is better than any image ever could be.
Yasmin Mogahed
#84. Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.
Lewis B. Smedes
#85. It is not very romantic, but reality is a better basis for building a relationship than fantasizing about a soul mate or counting on a god to find you a partner.
Darrel Ray
#86. For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the greatest sunset. Hearing children laugh.
Chuck Palahniuk
#87. I do not judge the individual based on their belief. If I were to, then I would, undoubtedly, be no better than the (religious) system that I frown upon.
Travis Culliton
#88. In the old legends, Arachne had gotten into trouble because of pride. She'd bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena's, which had led to Mount Olympus's first reality TV punishment program: 'So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess?' Arachne had lost in a big way.
Rick Riordan
#89. The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.
Alex Pareene
#90. Perhaps all fear is worse than reality, just as all hope is better than fulfilment.
Len Deighton
#91. Never thought reality could get better than one's dreams. Thanks to a women though, one would rather stay awake becaues one's dreams aint remotely close to being as good as his reality.
Morena Baloyi
#93. We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better.
Steve Mariucci
#94. You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
Karsten Andersen
#95. Better be a desperate single with many options than a desperate married with no option.
Amen Muffler
#96. Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Umberto Eco
#97. It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.
Ursula Vernon
#98. This is not an industry in which you curl up in a ball and shy away from the realities. It's a time to scream to the clouds that we're here and we've got great values and great prices. What better time to do that than the Super Bowl?
Kevin Smith
#99. Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.
Anthony Daniels
#100. Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.
John C. Wright
