Top 100 Quotes About What Is Real
#1. Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only ever a sense that what is real to me is not real to others, and to share a memory with someone is to risk sullying my belief in what has truly happened.
Hannah Kent
#2. In some ways, discovering that our physical universe is formed in a completely different way to what we thought is a bit like someone in a Star Trek Holodeck program suddenly seeing a bit of the actual spaceship and questioning their own sense of 'what is real?
Richard Gentle
#3. They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
Constantin Brancusi
#4. My life is good because I am not passive about it. I invest in what is real. Like real people, to do real things, for the real me.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#5. Think of my movies as heightening our awareness, not confusing the difference between truth and fiction, but heightening our awareness of how confused we can become about what is real.
Errol Morris
#6. Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Ruth Hubbard
#7. Of what is real I say,
Is it the old, the roseate parent or
The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else
The spirit and all ensigns of the self?
Wallace Stevens
#8. I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
Dane Cook
#9. I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
Elliott Erwitt
#10. The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens
#11. It's naive to think that anyone is just one person, that there's a real you. What is real? You can only exist in one moment, and then that moment is gone. And there's a new moment, a new you. And you can't even say you're the sum of all your parts, because you can never be all your parts at once.
Sherry Ashworth
#12. Not surprisingly, the social reality defined by a culture affects its conception of physical reality. What is real for an individual as a member of a culture is a product both of his social reality and of the way in which that shapes his experience of the physical world. Since
George Lakoff
#13. Oh sober-minded reader, never sneer at such fantasies. In the quiet of your mind, when the deep night is at it's blackest, are you always so certain of what is real?
Ann Eliza Young
#14. Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned with people knowing exactly what I made up and what is real.
Melanie Benjamin
#15. What are you? German? American? English? Greek? Japanese? Turkish? French? Indian? Chinese? These are not real, these are virtual! You are human! This is what is real!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.
Shannon Hale
#17. As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.
Chris Martin
#18. [The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real.
Sigmund Freud
#19. Being trampled almost to death by a preoccupied troll is almost the ideal cure for a person confused about what is real and what isn't. Reality is something walking heavily up your spine.
Terry Pratchett
#20. Who says paper worlds
Are an escape from what is real?
As though the lives trapped in their binding
Are not ones that make you feel.
For sometimes our greatest lessons
Come from those with ink for skin,
Who reach beyond the page
To take our hand and pull us in.
Erin Hanson
#21. Varied are the ideas of what constitutes "success," e.g. money, position, power, achievement, honours, and the like. But these are not open to every man-nor do they bring what is real success, namely, happiness.
Robert Baden-Powell
#22. Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.
Sharon Creech
#23. We are stuck on the obvious of this world, and it so fills our minds and our beings that there is little room for anything else, even if that "obvious" is merely a small part of what is real.
Van Harden
#24. I'll tear their worlds to pieces, they will not now what is real and what isn't and in the end they will all die.
Jill Thrussell
#25. It is the mind that weaves the dream of life, it convinces us that what we see is what is apparent and what is real, and that there's nothing else outside of our perception.
Frederick Lenz
#26. Dear Maya,
Life is an illusion.
And as it turns out, so is death.
What is real?
What remains when we all fade away?
Two things: Love. Forgiveness.
Don't forget
Cathy Ostlere
#27. The world we knew as children is still buried within our minds. Our childlike self is the deepest level of our being. It is who we really are, and what is real doesn't go away.
Marianne Williamson
#28. I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.
Wallace Stevens
#29. To be a footballer was just a dream, and I don't believe in dreams. I only deal in what is real. To be honest, I've never thought about what I could get out of football or where it would take me. I just wanted to play. I'm the same now.
Thierry Henry
#30. Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'
Delta Goodrem
#31. Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
Meher Baba
#32. It was one of those moments when life's disguises are stripped away, when you see clearly what is real, and all you can say to yourself is useful to get that learned.
Claire Messud
#33. Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.
Alan Moore
#34. You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
Alison Jackson
#35. What the human eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black and white image transforms illusions into another reality.
Ruth Bernhard
#36. What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
Eugene Delacroix
#37. Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.
Bryant McGill
#38. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.
Frank Lentricchia
#39. Fantasy is not practice for what is real - fantasy is the opiate of women.
Shannon Hale
#40. Nobody cares about worthiness. People care about what is real inside of you.
Douglas Coupland
#41. This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."
Michael Jackson
#43. While we can certainly be mistaken at times about what is real, there is indeed a reality to know. Mistakes actually prove the point. We would not know there were such things as hallucinations or illusions if we did not have reality with which to compare them.
Douglas Beaumont
#44. Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?
Terry Tempest Williams
#45. The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.
Herbert Marcuse
#46. The truly great man dwells on what is real and not what is on the surface.
Laozi
#47. Sometimes distortions can speak the truth. They confirm for me what is real by troubling me with something false.
Jeffrey Overstreet
#48. From here on out, I am only interested in what is real. Real people, real feelings, that's it. That's all I'm interested in.
Billy Crudup
#50. Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#51. We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.
Terry Tempest Williams
#52. Art is what gets us beyond what is real. It makes reality more real. It also shortens the distance we gotta travel to see how connected we are.
Laura Pritchett
#53. What I see is tellin me this world's gone crazy, but, What is real says God's still on His throne, What I need is to remember one thing, that the Lord of the gentle breeze is Lord of the rough and tumble, and he is the King of the jungle.
Steven Curtis Chapman
#54. You have no idea the power generated each time somebody is told a story. When a conscious, sentient mind willingly ignores what is real, what is fact, and instead chooses to invest in people and places that never existed ... It's magnificent.
Derek Landy
#55. 'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
B.J. Novak
#56. It almost doesn't matter what is real or unreal. It really matters what we choose to believe.
Judy Frankel
#57. It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.'
John Ridley
#58. When we decline to talk about what is real simply because it's uncomfortable to do so, we seal our own fate.
Richard Heinberg
#59. I doze and wake so many times
my dreams reach over what is real,
the real becomes my dreams.
Pat Lowery Collins
#60. The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure ... you are above everything distressing.
Baruch Spinoza
#61. There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter
#62. We must reject the artificial and embrace what is real and true: truth in food, community, relationships and self.
Bryant McGill
#63. What is real and what is not? Can you tell me or I you? Perhaps we shall never know more than this - that to think a thing is to make it true.
P.L. Travers
#64. should only obey God when we feel like it; only that preaching Christianity primarily as a set of new behaviors will create people who act right without ever loving the right.1 This creates hypocrites, weary and resentful of God. What Is "Real" Spiritual Growth?
J.D. Greear
#65. We can call this power intuition, but intuition is nothing more than a sudden and immediate seizing of what is real, without the need for words or formulas.
Anonymous
#66. I know that suffering gives us new perspectives and helps us to clarify our real value. I know that suffering has helped me to clarify my relationships ... Perhaps suffering stops us in our tracks and forces us to confront what is real within ourselves and in our environment.
Thea Bowman
#67. Find out for yourself what is truth, what is real. Discover that there are virtuous things and there are non-virtuous things. Once you have discovered for yourself give up the bad and embrace the good.
Gautama Buddha
#68. Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to you.
Robert Henri
#69. On a few words of what is real in the world
I nourish myself. I defend myself against
Whatever remains.
Wallace Stevens
#70. You must recognize, embrace, and be honest about what is real for you today and allow that understanding to inform the choices you make. Only then will you be able to build the future of your dreams.
Suze Orman
#71. There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out
what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.
Aleksandar Hemon
#72. My boobs are fake, my hair's fake but what is real is my voice and my heart.
Dolly Parton
#73. Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall.
Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen
#74. You have to do what is real and what is right and what is good and what you believe in. It doesn't mean it's always going to work. It doesn't. But when it does, it is truthful and forever.
Mitch Leigh
#75. I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing?
Robert Charles Wilson
#76. I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much of what is real, is using real things and instances that are specific. Specificity is the best tool you can have, as a writer.
Mindy Kaling
#77. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real.
Chow Yun-Fat
#78. I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.
Tamara Tunie
#79. Suffering is how Life tells you that you are resisting or misperceiving what is real and true. It is the way Life suggests that you are not in harmony with what is.
Adyashanti
#80. We do not see what is "real," we see what we are.
Willy Ronis
#81. So much of this world is based on illusion, temporaries, and disposability that I think it's essential that our closest relationships reflect what is real.
Gillian Anderson
#82. Human kind gradually begins to remove the blinders from their consciousness about life, about what is real and what is not. Intuition and psychic abilities increase.
Elaine Seiler
#83. Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.
Bryant McGill
#84. Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or possibly accessible to the poet or, say, the acutest poet.
Wallace Stevens
#85. The quality of CGI, audiences are now so used to it. They don't know what is CGI and what is real.
Jan De Bont
#86. What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
#87. To give up our imaginary position as the center, to renounce it, not only intellectually but in the imaginative part of our soul, that means to awaken to what is real and eternal, to see the true light and hear the true silence.
Simone Weil
#88. The truth of art consists in its power to break the monopoly that those in power exercise by defining what is real.
Denis Donoghue
#89. Mysteriously, as elusive as it is, this moment
where the eye is what it sees, where the heart is what it feels
this moment shows us that what is real is sacred
Mark Nepo
#90. The dreamer's untamed eye sees beyond the illusions to the heart of what is real.
Bryant McGill
#91. A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
Simone Weil
#92. As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
Mike Mills
#95. The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finally maintained...all existing things are, in an intelligible sense, imaginary.
John Stuart Mackenzie
#96. Say you have seen something. You have seen an ordinary bit of what is real, the infinite fabric of time that eternity shoots through, and time's soft-skinned people working and dying under slowly shifting stars. Then what?
Annie Dillard
#97. The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.
Wallace Stevens
#98. Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.
Billy Corgan
#99. What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things ... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Constantin Brancusi
#100. I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.
L.M. Montgomery
