190 Realtiy Quotes

“In dreams, you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams, there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.” – Haruki Murakami

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“To wear dreams on one’s feet is to begin to give a reality to one’s dreams.” – Roger Vivier

“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.” – Malala Yousafzai

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” – Jessamyn West

“Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.” – Jack Welch

“Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” – T. S. Eliot

“Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.” – Alan Moore

“Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.” – Queen Latifah

“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.” – Karl Lagerfeld

“Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it.” – Jandy Nelson

“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.” – Stephen Richards

“Truth is exact correspondence with reality.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.” – Rainbow Rowell

“Reality’s what other people dream for you.” – Maggie Stiefvater

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.” – Aristotle

“You couldn’t hide from bad things and pretend they didn’t exist, that left you with a dream world, and dream worlds eventually crumbled. You had to face the truth. And then decide what you wanted.” – Sarah Cross

“It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.” – Robert H. Goddard

“Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.” – Les Brown

“You create your own reality.” – Jane Roberts

“Your opinion is not my reality.” – Steve Maraboli

“As sure as water’s wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.” – Neil Gaiman

“We don’t live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality.” – Bryan Singer

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.” – Arthur Miller

“I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality.” – Clint Eastwood

“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” – Frida Kahlo

“Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.” – Anaïs Nin

“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.” – Alex Haley

“Nothing is real.” – John Lennon

“You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.” – Neil Gaiman

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” – Cormac McCarthy

“If you’ve never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.” – Red Haircrow

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” – Frank Herbert

“Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.” – Gene Wolfe

“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.” – Shirley Jackson

“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.” – Tim Burton

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.” – Simone Weil

“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse.” – Margaret Atwood

“Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.” – A. Lee Martinez

“You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.” – Les Brown

“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.” – John Lennon

“There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality or lower your expectations.” – Jodi Picoult

“Unlike other forms of psychological disorders, the core issue in trauma is reality..” – Bessel A. van der Kolk

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.” – Bertrand Russell

“Our aim is not to die. It is to carry out the revolution, to make a reality of our ideas. We must live, to get them accepted by the people.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“If you align expectations with reality, you will never be disappointed.” – Terrell Owens

“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” – Jess C. Scott

“The real world is where the monsters are.” – Rick Riordan

“The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.” – Victor Hugo

“I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.” – Hunter S. Thompson

“If you use your mind to study reality, you won’t understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you’ll understand both.” – Bodhidharma

“Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.” – Gabriel García Márquez

“I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.” – Lawrence Durrell

“To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.” – Plutarch

“From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.” – Leon Trotsky

“Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.” – Shannon L. Alder

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” – Douglas H. Everett

“There’s a harsh reality to situations where demand outstrips supply.” – Travis Kalanick

“Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.” – Brian Tracy

“Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” – Werner Heisenberg

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.” – Walt Disney

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.” – G.K. Chesterton

“Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.” – Wallace Stevens

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Soren Kierkegaard

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” – Dr. Seuss

“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.” – Rabindranath Tagore

“The imaginary is what tends to become real.” – André Breton

“Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.” – Young-ha Kim

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” – Philip K. Dick

“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” – Lily Tomlin

“The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.” – Hans Urs von Balthasar

“Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.” – John Keats

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.” – Shannon L. Alder

“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now.” – John Lennon

“Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” – John Gardner

“No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.” – Roger Zelazny

“We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter.” – C. JoyBell C.

“When you argue with reality, you lose – but only 100% of the time.” – Byron Katie

“Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.” – Kasie West

“Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.” – Adam Young

“I am who I am and that’s who I am.” – Nikolai Gogol

“Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.” – Tupac Shakur

“That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have.” – Ally Condie

“We reveal our joys and successes, we conceal our pain.” – Jesse Jackson

“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.” – Jane Wagner

“What if reality is nothing but some disease.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.” – Rachel Carson

“There is no point in using the word ‘impossible’ to describe something that has clearly happened.” – Douglas Adams

“Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade.” – King James Gadsden

“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“Our intention creates our reality.” – Wayne Dyer

“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.” – Jess C Scott

“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.” – Marcus Aurelius

“The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.” – Ai Yazawa

“Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.” – Murasaki Shikibu

“The cold harsh reality is that we have to balance the budget.” – Michael Bloomberg

“Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.” – Alice Sebold

“Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.” – Patrick Ness

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.” – Maya Angelou

“Reality is one of the possibilities that I cannot afford to ignore.” – Leonard Cohen

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.” – Lloyd Alexander

“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.” – George Orwell

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.” – Michelle Hodkin

“If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.” – Jodi Picoult

“In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don’t exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don’t hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites.” – Haruki Murakami

“Keeping secrets is a survival tactic.” – Kaede Lazares

“To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.” – Nelly Sachs

“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.” – Desiderius Erasmus

“It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.” – Anthony Burgess

“I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.” – Ice Cube

“Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.” – William James

“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.” – David Eagleman

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” – Khalil Gibran

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” – Tom Clancy

“A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.” – Aubrey Plaza

“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” – Robertson Davies

“Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.” – Jim Morrison

“Reality simply consists of different points of view.” – Margaret Atwood

“Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that wa.” – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.” – Dalai Lama

“Fantasy love is much better than Reality Love.” – Andy Warhol

“Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.” – Aldous Huxley

“Reality is not always probable, or likely.” – Jorge Luis Borges

“Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.” – Tracy Morgan

“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life.” – Hermann Hesse

“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems — but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.” – Salman Rushdie

“You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.” – Jennifer Lopez

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu

“I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.” – Moshe Dayan

“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.” – Alexis Carrel

“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.” – Lewis Carroll

“Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling.” – Jim Morrison

“You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it’s whatever you say it is.” – J.K. Rowling

“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” – John Lennon

“We are more often frightened than hurt, and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“If there is a sense of reality, there must also be a sense of possibility.” – Robert Musil

“I don’t pretend reality is the same for everyone.” – Diane Setterfield

“Real-life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.” – Patrick Ness

“Reality is frequently inaccurate.” – Douglas Adams

“You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.” – Tonya Hurley

“The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” – Kahlil Gibran

“Stop trying to change reality by attempting to eliminate complexity.” – David Whyte

“The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.” – Hannah Arendt

“In reality, many people let go of religion later in life.” – Penn Jillette

“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.” – Virginia Woolf

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be obtained only by someone who is detached.” – Simone Weil

“Sometimes I think people take reality for granted.” – Francesca Zappia

“Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on.” – unknown

“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” – Judy Garland

“It was queer how sometimes a child’s innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.” – George R.R. Martin

“There is no unique picture of reality.” – Stephen Hawking

“You can’t just wish change; you have to live the change in order for it to become a reality.” – Steve Maraboli

“Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.” – Robin Williams

“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.” – Voltaire

“Real dishes break. That’s how you know they’re real.” – Marty Rubin

“Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don’t want it to happen to me.” – Shakira

“Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.” – André Breton

“Don’t be afraid to have a reality check. Taking risks is OK, but you must be realistic.” – Joy Mangano

“Harsh reality is always better than false hope.” – Julian Fellowes

“Everything you can imagine is real.” – Pablo Picasso

“Being gay is not a Western invention. It is a human reality.” – Hillary Clinton

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” – Nikos Kazantzakis

“Reality is a sliding door.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

“The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.” – Muhammad Iqbal

“Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” – Stephen Colbert

“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.” – Chuck Palahniuk

“Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.” – Gustave Flaubert

“I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.” – Lady Gaga

“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” – Philip K. Dick

“Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.” – Mark Twain

“Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.” – Mason Cooley

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” – Philip K. Dick

“Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.” – Cesare Pavese

“Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Wilson Watts

“Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before.” – Elizabeth Edwards

“Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” – Arthur Conan Doyle

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James A. Baldwin

“I hate reality shows that are not reality.” – Joan Rivers

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.” – John Lennon

“Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling.” – M.C. Escher

“In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.” – Stephen Hawking

“It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” – Rick Riordan

“I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

“Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.” – Joe Hill

“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.” – Malcolm Muggeridge

“You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Pain forces even the innocent to lie.” – Publilius Syrus

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.” – Albert Einstein

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” – Criss Jami

“Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.” – Victor Hugo

Originally published October 1, 2021, updated October 1, 2021

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