Top 100 Quotes About Reality
#1. The reality is, like any band, you can never quite quantify who does what.
Nick Mason
#2. I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.
Jermaine Jackson
#4. Parties of this sort are as a rule premature. They have little reality until the following day, when they occupy the attention of the people who were not invited.
Marcel Proust
#5. One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.
Timothy Keller
#6. People say that soundstage sets never quite look like reality. But actually, they can. They can be as real as you want as long as you pay attention to the kind of detail that is given for free in a real place.
Lenny Abrahamson
#7. We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
Gautama Buddha
#8. All creative work has its greatest reality while it is still in a man's mind, before he begins to execute it.
John Prebble
#9. Spiritual awareness is that level of reality,
which will take you beyond the mere fact of
living in the physicality of the body and mind
into the realm of your consciousness.
Gian Kumar
#10. It's television. The reality of it is, if you go on the boards and people are saying, "I saw that coming," or "This is lame," or "I can't believe they're doing this again ... " Having been one of those people myself, I know better, and try to avoid it.
Damon Lindelof
#11. The feeling that dreams show us the real nature of reality is something that's shared by many indigenous groups around the world.
Stanley Krippner
#12. That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#13. The reality is that most of the time, the more bizarre the trend, the more bogus the results.
Jillian Michaels
#14. I dare to dream a dream, for tomorrow I shall make it my reality!
Linda J. Wolff
#15. Make a sex tape, upload it, get on a reality show, release a perfume, retire. That's the new American dream.
Natasha Leggero
#17. 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
#18. Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.
Mathias Malzieu
#19. Time is not an absolute reality but an aspect of our consciousness.
Robert Lanza
#20. Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous.
Paul Tillich
#21. As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
Raymond Kelly
#22. One theory is that we will make war look so attractive that we undermine the deterrent. That's Never Never Land. What we have now would have been enough to deter Hitler. But we are talking in a different order of reality.
Henry A. Kissinger
#23. Our reality defines itself by people who strive for change
Daniel Egger
#24. Why is it that when a woman has bruises, especially on her face, people assume they were put there through domestic violence? I'm guilty of jumping to the same conclusions myself. It's a societal assumption, unfortunately born out of too frequent reality.
Kim Holden
#25. It had seemed simple in theory to persuade one of them to allow a male into her bed and heart. The reality of it was anything but easy.
Laurann Dohner
#26. I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
Fiona Apple
#27. Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
Terence McKenna
#28. The only reality is God. There cannot be another and God is love.
Linda Stewart
#29. There is no grief amount wolves. Nature has a wonderful way of making you face reality. You can sit and weep if you want, but you are likely to be killed while you're still in your mourning, because you let your guard down.
Jodi Picoult
#30. The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.
Emma Goldman
#31. [It's] the lens through which your brain views the world that shapes your reality. And if we can change the lens, not only can we change your happiness, we can change every single educational and business outcome at the same time.
Shawn Achor
#32. The reality is, I've started multiple companies, so actually I'm probably more of a product/creative person than I am sales. Although I can do both.
Tim Armstrong
#33. The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.
Brian Reynolds
#34. Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
Edith Sitwell
#35. 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
#37. Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.
William James
#38. Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work
Charles J. Shields
#39. When reality was just tilted on an axis, a world continued to spin. This is me.
Brandi Gomez
#40. Contemplation does not arrive at reality after a process of deduction, but by an intuitive awakening in which our free and personal reality becomes fully alive to its own existential depths, which open out into the mystery of God. For
Thomas Merton
#41. His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience
the experience of reading someone else's thoughts
over real life.
Ian Rankin
#42. How young he was when he made the surprisingly adult resolution to escape from the unpalatable reality of dreams into the slightly more acceptable illusions of his everyday, walking life!
Salman Rushdie
#43. It is important to understand that all of us are all either consciously or unconsciously co-creating the illusions of the physical reality. We often are unaware of our co-creating ability and frequently create parts of the physical reality by default unconsciously.
Russell Anthony Gibbs
#44. Going forward, you must adjust to the new reality, be more self directed, and learn to be productive under the reign of uncertainty, unpredictability, and unstable times.
Jennifer Touma
#45. Vigilance of the wisest kind is to incessantly remain open to the reality that what I 'see' is but a single thread and solitary shard of what 'is', for to assume otherwise is to surrender the wisdom of vigilance to the decay of ignorance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#46. Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality. It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq.
Chuck Hagel
#47. A regimen of hardship and humiliation that at least offered you the dignity of feeling like your existence bore some sort of relationship to reality, that you were no longer engaged in a game of make-believe that would consume the rest of your
Tom Perrotta
#48. Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
Brian Greene
#50. Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.
Sharon Salzberg
#51. If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.
Sidney Poitier
#52. Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire
Susan Sontag
#53. Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.
Richard Smalley
#54. It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?
Richard Flanagan
#55. There are so many reality shows on now where they want you to be crazy, the girls are just going bananas; you know how they portray brown girls. They portray us in a different type of light.
NeNe Leakes
#56. They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.
Mahesh Rangarajan
#57. For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place ... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.
Bell Hooks
#58. It's a paradox of modern times that the more we engage with social media in our virtual lives, the more antisocial we become in reality.
The School Of Life
#59. Reach down inside yourself, Peabody, and get a grip on reality, however slippery.
J.D. Robb
#60. I see you in my mind crisp and concise and I will stop at nothing to make the vision reality.
Robert McGinley
#61. Fiction books give the reader a chance to step away from their own reality and into the shoes of the characters, and they show you a world that isn't the one you already know. And sometimes the story's not so different from your own, and it lets you get closer to your own feelings.
Shin Towada
#62. Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have plenty of real-world things to deal with all the time. I have deadlines, meetings, I answer the phone, I get turned down, I wait in lines and am forced to pass for normal all the time.
Henry Rollins
#63. First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you.
Frank M. Wanderer
#64. Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
Simone Weil
#65. Being empowered with the knowledge that you are the creator of your own reality, is the best way to accelerate healing and learning.
David Wolfe
#66. The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, until there is nothing left but ... what we are meant to be.
Madeleine L'Engle
#67. It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take. (p. 318).
Haruki Murakami
#68. We've always been a bit out of touch with reality.
Jarvis Cocker
#69. Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#70. What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Max Jacob
#71. We explore because we are curious, not because we wish to develop grand views of reality or better widgets.
Brian Cox
#72. I fused the beauty of dreaming and the reality of life into a single blissful colour..
... On a clear bright day even the softness of the sounds is golden ...
Fernando Pessoa
#73. It's funny how nothing really ever turns out the way we expect it to, no matter how certain the future seems. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate.
Cassia Leo
#74. Though we think we see different things from our windows, in reality we see the same things: Happiness and sorrow! All that is seen from every window!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#75. There is no brutality and cruelty in battles and wars; in reality only the outcome matters.
M.F. Moonzajer
#76. The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.
Alan W. Watts
#77. Notwithstanding how long you shall keep thinking about it, action is what will make it a reality! When you dream, act! When you act, act well!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#78. Kafka's fiction examines a universe largely unexplored in the literature preceding him, one full of implications that venture into the remote regions of human psychology. It's a universe with different rules than those governing our reality. And there's no map.
Franz Kafka
#79. Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.
Germaine Greer
#80. I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed
Algernon Blackwood
#81. Life itself is not the reality. We are the ones who put life into stones and pebbles.
Frederick Sommer
#82. I didn't necessarily set out to think of a show to make fun of reality shows.
Jon Glaser
#83. The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
Carl Bernstein
#85. The reality is that there are so few roles out there for women and for women of color, and I'm a character actor, this I know. And I'm getting to see more of the roles that are out there, but there aren't many. And zilch have been studio movies. Zilch.
Octavia Spencer
#86. Days are only beautiful early in the morning. I should have remembered that. Dawn is merely an illusion that the world is beautiful. When the world opens its eyes, reality reasserts itself, and you're back with the same old shit.
Jean-Claude Izzo
#87. This is the Eros of thought: to desire everything. It wants to leave nothing out. Thought is curious and is driven by the desire to know. It wants to draw aside the veils of illusion and see what reality conceals. Words, images and ideas are its instruments of illumination. Yet
John O'Donohue
#88. When I registered for econ, I had no idea that I'd be in for this level of reality-show drama. It's like a big fat bonus.
Tammara Webber
#89. Some of my enthusiasm for the [found] photograph was based on the fact that there was some residual illusion of reality in it always, no matter what I did to it.
Robert Heinecken
#90. We must recognize that the reality of another's fear is not to be estimated by our own attitude toward the object of the fear, but by the attitude of the person who fears. It is the fear, not the object, which is the reality.
Frances G. Wickes
#91. The reality is a reality check is an oxymoron
Tom Schafer
#92. Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What's real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won't necessarily understand why it worked.
Scott Adams
#93. Sailing through everyday reality is a breath taking journey, where much of what we perceive about humanity does not seem to be right.
Sameh Elsayed
#94. People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.
Jonah Lehrer
#95. There is no reality
only our own order imposed on everything.
Brian Herbert
#96. But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one reality without destroying the other. Fantasizing spares those we care about from the full irresponsibility and scary strangeness of our urges.
Alain De Botton
#97. To fall into it again in appearance was to leave it behind in reality! He had to do it! He would have done nothing if he didn't do that! His whole life would have been useless, all his penitence wasted, and there would be only one thing left to say: What is the point?
Victor Hugo
#98. Those who lack imagination have no choice but to base their conclusions on the reality they see around them. But on the other hand, those who are imaginative have a tendency to build fortified castles they have designed themselves, and to seal off every window. And so it was with Kiyoaki.
Yukio Mishima
#99. I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
Winston Churchill
#100. My books have very few villains pretending to be righteous, but they are filled with good people who have pretended to be villains so well that they believe it themselves. This is how I like to view reality.
Kenneth Everett
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