Top 48 Break From Reality Quotes
#1. Fantasies were safe. It was a break from reality. A chance to act on desires for a short period of time.
Maya Banks
#2. It's always a kind of liberation to leave the classroom during a lesson, even just for a few minutes. As if you have managed to steal a little time for yourself, to take a break from reality
Sara Bergmark Elfgren
#3. Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.
Deepak Chopra
#4. Concentration is not wholesome in itself. A thief needs concentration to break into a house.
The object of our concentration is what makes it beneficial or not. If you use meditative concentration to run away from reality, that is not beneficial.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#5. And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.
Nora Ephron
#6. You convinced yourselves we're just a bunch of regular lads who got a bad break in life. Anything else would have cracked your dream open and made you face reality. Illusion is easy. Illusion is the loser's way out. Your way.
Peter F. Hamilton
#7. Never break a Muslim's heart by refusing what he offers you, when you know that anything that comes to you through him is in reality from Allah, and he is only His powerless and compelled means.
Abdullah Ibn Alawi Al-Haddad
#8. How can our hearts not break? How can we hold our tears? How can we bear the pain of losing those loving children and their guardians, who were slain in Newtown, Conn.? Why can't we face the reality of our times and restrict deranged people from having these destructive powers?
Radhanath Swami
#9. The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
Herbert Marcuse
#10. Politicians are like little cats: They are never serious; they always mess up the things; they are fainthearted and spoilt. And when they look at the mirror, they see a tiger there, till the hammer of reality break that mirror very harshly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13. All reality about me now appeared to be in tatters, taken down and reduced to the civil war of its particles. I held on very, very tight indeed. Because in addition to that feeling, that disintegration, there was rage. I wanted to break something.
Sebastian Faulks
#14. It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.
Fiona Apple
#15. Unfortunately, I'll need to watch them again at some point, because my mind keeps straying back to reality. I envy Deo's ability to lose himself in fantasy for a while. That type of break seems almost as useful as sleep for keeping stress at bay, and I've never really mastered it.
Rysa Walker
#16. I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years and many, many opportunities to tell many, many stories about themselves, and black filmmakers have not had as many years, as many opportunities, as many films to explore the nuances of our reality.
Ava DuVernay
#17. In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.
Takashi Miike
#18. The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.
Carlos Castaneda
#19. Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.
David Simon
#20. God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.
Oscar Wilde
#21. 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.
Grant Morrison
#22. 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
#23. A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality.
Thomas Moore
#24. It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.
Jon Tester
#25. To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past; therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#26. It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.
Ashley Madekwe
#27. Set a new standard. Change reality. Break ground to something new and different. That achievement will live forever just because you WERE somebody special!
Gerry Lindgren
#28. I demand to break rule number #5
I demand to kiss her today. Right now, even.
A.S. King
#29. I'd actually questioned my sanity, wondered if this was it: the substandard past few years had finally led to a mental break with reality, and now, floodgates open, there'd be no limit to the fiends I'd encounter. They'd simply crawl out of my head, down into the world.
Marisha Pessl
#30. Darwin's theory thus makes the testable prediction that whenever we use technology to glimpse reality beyond the human scale, our evolved intuition should break down.
Max Tegmark
#31. If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. An likewise, if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance, and the farther you go beyond the appearance, the nearer you will be to the essence.
Meister Eckhart
#32. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.
Lev Shestov
#33. I'm not brave enough to love you
The same way
You're not strong enough to take me on.
Dawn Lanuza
#34. Real dishes break. That's how you know they're real.
Marty Rubin
#35. Dreams made your eyes sparkle over the possibilities of doing something new and exciting. Reality made the rest of you break a sweat in panic. I was terrified.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#36. It's not TIME that heals everything, it is SLEEP ...
Sleeping is the perfect answer to all doubts and troubles.
Leaving the world of reality behind and disappearing in to a world of make-believe and imaginations, is a solace you get from nothing else ...
Sanhita Baruah
#37. It's funny what love can do to a person. It strips them of everything, even their instincts. It creates a new reality for you to adhere to, a new world where you break the rules just to keep the love intact.
Karina Halle
#39. A dream becomes a goal the moment you write it down. A goal becomes a plan the moment you break it down into doable steps. A plan becomes a reality only when you take action.
Marshall Sylver
#40. Everything's the same, when you break through to absolute reality; it's all one vast blur.
Philip K. Dick
#42. Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.
Kathy Acker
#43. He saw that the key to liberation would be to break through ignorance and to enter deeply into the heart of reality and attain a direct experience of it. Such knowledge would not be the knowledge of the intellect, but of direct experience.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#44. There comes a time in our life when we make ourselves a prisoner; we have to do everything possible to break ourselves free".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#45. But I am not sick, or crazy, or broken.
I am Meda Melange, demon-saint monster girl. I make full-grown men scream in terror. I break bones and drain blood. I turn nightmares into reality.
I am the most powerful creature on earth. I do not wear a leash.
Eliza Crewe
#46. The mind couldn't think about the End of the World all the time. It needed the occasional break, a romp through the trivial. Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality [ ... ]
Neal Stephenson
#47. You have to accept this reality as the madhouse walls bulge break and the terrified insane flood our ugly streets. you have to accept terrible reality.
Charles Bukowski
#48. Now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since been closed / they keep pounding their fists on reality hoping it will break / but I don't think there's a one of us leads a life free of mistakes
Ani DiFranco
