220 Reality Quotes To Help You Live Your Best Life

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Famous Reality Quotes

Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are. — Robert Ringer

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be. — Frank Zappa

Reality denied comes back to haunt. - Philip K. Dick

Reality denied comes back to haunt. — Philip K. Dick

Reality is something you rise above. - Liza Minnelli

Reality is something you rise above. — Liza Minnelli

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. — Philip K. Dick

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. - John Lennon

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. — John Lennon

Reality is not always probable, or likely. — Jorge Luis Borges

Reality has its own power — you can turn your back on it, but it will find you in the end, and your inability to cope with it will be your ruin. — 50 Cent

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. - Osho

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination. — Osho

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it — Edgar Allan Poe

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. - Tupac Shakur

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. — Tupac Shakur

We need realism to deal with reality. — Slick Rick

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

Reality may not be the best of all possible worlds, but it's still the only place where you can get a decent steak. — Woody Allen

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. — Jacque Fresco

Short Reality Quotes

  • Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. — Warren G. Bennis
  • A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. — Colin Powell
  • Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. — Soren Kierkegaard
  • Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
  • We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca The Elder
  • A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities. — J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Every great dream begins with a dreamer. — Harriet Tubman
  • If you can dream it, you can do it. Your limits are all within yourself. — Brian Tracy
  • Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live. — Rachel Roy
  • To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner

Reality Image Quotes

Reality whistles a different tune underwater. - Tom Robbins quote

Reality whistles a different tune underwater. — Tom Robbins

Reality quote Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. - John Lennon quote

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. — John Lennon

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. - Philip K. Dick quote

It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. — Philip K. Dick

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. - Assata Shakur quote

Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them. — Assata Shakur

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality. - Malala Yousafzai quote

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality. — Malala Yousafzai

Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten. - Thomas Muller quote

Anyone who sacrifices his dreams to reality is forever beaten. — Thomas Muller

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Robin Williams quote

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. — Robin Williams

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. - Zig Ziglar quote

If you can dream it, you can achieve it. — Zig Ziglar

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. - Anton Chekhov quote

You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible. — Anton Chekhov

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. - Winston Churchill quote

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality. — Winston Churchill

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. - William F. Buckley, Jr. quote

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive. — William F. Buckley, Jr.

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. - Otto Rank quote

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. — Otto Rank

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. — George Bernard Shaw

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. - Ray Bradbury quote

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. — Ray Bradbury

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. - Alan Watts quote

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. — Alan Watts

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. - Henry Miller quote

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. — Henry Miller

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs. - Jean-Martin Charcot quote

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs. — Jean-Martin Charcot

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness. - Kalidasa quote

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness. — Kalidasa

The Utopias of one age have been the realities of the next. - Charles Sumner quote

The Utopias of one age have been the realities of the next. — Charles Sumner

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies. - Eileen Chang quote

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies. — Eileen Chang

Reality quote Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and
Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.

Back To Reality Quotes

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. - Charles Bukowski

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. — Charles Bukowski

Every thought has the power to bring into being the visible from the invisible. It is absolutely necessary for us all to understand that everything we think, do or say comes back to us. Every thought, word or action- without exception- manifests itself [in some way] as an actual reality. — Ann Wigmore

Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality. — Armand Nassery

Reality quote All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.
All human unhappiness comes from not facing reality squarely, exactly as it is.

Lord, help me to appreciate this woman/man without elevating her/him above you in my heart. Help me to remember that nobody can ever take your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God. Give me an undivided heart. — Joshua Harris

It is possible that a picture will move far away from Nature and yet find its way back to reality. The faculty of memory, experience at a distance produces pictorial associations. — Paul Klee

The media has enormous power. The media is undergoing huge changes now. It seemed like it's time to step back and look at how the media shapes our lives and our perceptions of reality. — Thomas Hunt Morgan

Reality quote No artist tolerates reality.
No artist tolerates reality.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. — Maurice Sendak

Once one has been to these challenging terrible places they’re always strangely drawn back… because there’s nothing that can compare to seeing the raw reality of the basic human need for survival. It disgusts and inspires — Dan Eldon

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality. — Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

There's reality shows and things like that and I think 'Parenthood''s kind of a throwback to what we used to have back in the '70s, '80s and '90s. People want to see this again, and I feel like it's just a solid, good show. — Monica Potter

Escape From Reality Quotes

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts. — Shirley Chisholm

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me. — Freddie Mercury

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. — Lloyd Alexander

Reality quote We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determin
We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.

I love the DJ scene out in the clubs. It is a great way to party and make people happy, the atmosphere is one that I use as an escape from reality. — Danny Masterson

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. — Shirley Chisholm

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived. — Mario Vargas Llosa

Reality quote Be careful what you say. Words do not only describe reality. Words create reality.
Be careful what you say. Words do not only describe reality. Words create reality.

I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do. — Margaret Mitchell

Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion, art. — Arthur Symons

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. — Chuck D

I begin my pictures under the effect of a shock which I feel and which makes me escape from reality... I need a point of departure, even if it's only a speck of dust or a flash of light. — Joan Miro

Accept The Reality Quotes

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist. — Lise Meitner

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Assume the worst, hope for the best, accept reality. — Morgan Housel

I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak. - Woody Allen

I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak. — Woody Allen

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue. — Claude Chabrol

Reality quote Dream... but don't sleep.
Dream... but don't sleep.

The moment is the sole reality. — Karl Jaspers

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. — Marianne Williamson

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third. — Marge Piercy

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good. — Elizabeth Edwards

Turning Dreams Into Reality Quotes

Only the passion for the dreams, courage to pursue them, determination to succeed, turns them into reality. — Khabib Nurmagomedov

Each day I'm thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family, dreams that turned into reality, and like that turned into love. — Drake

When we give 100% to every minute of every day, extraordinary things can happen. Dreams can turn into realities. — Chatri Sityodtong

Reality quote Defeat is a state of mind: no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
Defeat is a state of mind: no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

If you choose to live in solutions, the world eagerly awaits your dreams and provides every tool and opportunity you need to turn them into reality — Tony Jeary

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 Everett

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality. — Wallace D. Wattles

Reality quote Control is an illusion, let it be, and enjoy the peace.
Control is an illusion, let it be, and enjoy the peace.

Now faith is the turning of dreams into deeds. It is betting your life on the unseen realities — Clarence Jordan

There is a work that my father had started, a dream he had dreamt. I come to you today saying...allow me to turn that dream into reality — Rahul Gandhi

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them. — Mortimer Zuckerman

Engineers turn dreams into reality. — Hayao Miyazaki

Harsh Reality Quotes

Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet. — Doris Brown Heritage

Hurricane Katrina exposed the harsh reality that we have been skating on thin ice when it comes to this country's energy concentrations on the Gulf Coast. — Pete Domenici

Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Reality quote Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope. — Julian Fellowes

There's a harsh reality - nothing lasts forever. You have to be ready to grow, and grow fast. — Pras Michel

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us. — Daisaku Ikeda

Reality quote Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Reality is harsh to the feet of shadows. But will you come? — C. S. Lewis

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. — Christian Nevell Bovee

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions. — Joshua Waitzkin

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance. — Noel Carroll

Dream Reality Quotes

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. — Jesse Owens

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. — Dr. Seuss

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... — Henry David Thoreau

What separated me from all my homeboys is the fact that I didn't get caught inside the reality. I was always dreaming about doing something else or going somewhere else. — Kendrick Lamar

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true. — Napoleon Hill

We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of waddling amphibians. We have played such roles for infinitely longer ages than we have been human. Our identity is a dream. We are process, not reality. — Loren Eiseley

The poorest man in the world is the man without a dream.The most frustrated man in the world is the man with a dream that never becomes reality. — Myles Munroe

If a person has no dreams, they no longer have any reason to live. Dreaming is necessary, although in the dream reality should be glimpsed. For me this is a principle of life. — Ayrton Senna

The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. — Robert Fulton

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality. — Big Sean

Reality Of Life Quotes

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. — Leo Tolstoy

There are lots of imposters in this earth, and to very first there always comes a second, to every reality there always come a fantasy, and the fantasy wants to come and live the life of the reality — Peter Tosh

I've discovered most Christians don't know what to do with difficult situations because they have bought into the lie that God owes us (for our good behaviour). The reality of life is that if you live long enough you are going to bleed, cry and hurt. AND God is still God IN that. — Matt Chandler

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

Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By resisting or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace. — Adyashanti

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality — Antonio Gramsci

To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones. — Roberta Bondar

How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. — Bill W.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert

Living Reality Quotes

Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains the maximum truth.We cannot sit still because we cannot, or do not , know the Absolute Truth. — Subhas Chandra Bose

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world. — Bryan Stevenson

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. - Bob Marley

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. — Bob Marley

Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history. — Ngugi wa Thiong'o

The IKEA spirit is strong and living reality. Simplicity in our behavior gives us strength. Simplicity and humbleness characterize us in our relations with each others, our suppliers and our customers. — Ingvar Kamprad

Don't you complicate your mind Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. — Dr. Seuss

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. - Mary Catherine Bateson

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. — Mary Catherine Bateson

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air — Thales

The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the beholder, through imagination, invention and confrontation. — Keith Haring

Changing Reality Quotes

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. illusions of realityRichard Bach

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Keep recognizing that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas. — Grace Lee Boggs

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. - Nikos Kazantzakis

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. — Nikos Kazantzakis

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him. — Dylan Thomas

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. — Anwar Sadat

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality. — Bertolt Brecht

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. — William James

When most people set out to change their lives, they often focus on all the external stuff, like a new job or a new location or new friends or a new romantic prospects and on and on. The reality is that changing your life starts with changing the way you see everything in your life. — Mark Manson

Reality Of Love Quotes

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything. — Virginia Woolf

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. — Charles Bukowski

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive. — Leo Buscaglia

And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you. — Kiersten White

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation. — Rabindranath Tagore

I still love taking pictures with Polaroid film. For me, it offers the most beautiful way of capturing reality and transferring it onto a flat piece of paper. — Helena Christensen

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows — Seyyed Hossein Nasr

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality. — Hélder Câmara

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. - Kathy Griffin

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming. — Kathy Griffin

Nature Of Reality Quotes

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality. — Adi Shankara

Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us. — Albert Hofmann

We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off. — John Trudell

Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator. — Amedeo Modigliani

The Divine realm extends to the earthly; but the later, illusory in nature, does not contain the essence of Reality. — Mahavatar Babaji

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony. — Noam Chomsky

What is the fundamental nature of reality? Is it that things can be infinitely divisible, or is that we must stop somewhere or other? If it’s infinitely divisible, then quantum theory might have to be subservient to general relativity. We just don’t know. — Naval Ravikant

For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for those who have a religious experience all nature is capable of revealing itself as cosmic sacrality. — Mircea Eliade

When we begin to glimpse the reality of God, the natural reaction is to worship him. Not to have that reaction is a fairly sure sign that we haven't yet really understood who he is or what he's done. — N. T. Wright

Only by observing the laws of nature can mankind avoid costly blunders in its exploitation. Any harm we inflict on nature will eventually return to haunt us. This is a reality we have to face. — Xi Jinping

Imagination And Reality Quotes

I have visualised my imagination so clearly and so consistently that it has manifested itself into my reality. — Conor McGregor

The ignorant and the deluded are, I think, in a strange way to be envied. That which is not known of does not trouble us, while an imagined but insubstantial peril does not harm us. To know the truths behind reality is a far greater burden. — H. P. Lovecraft

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. — Uta Hagen

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. — Irving Howe

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Robert Collier

Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. — Sidney Madwed

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. — Ludwig Feuerbach

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

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Henry Abbey

For [Richard] Feynman, the essence of the scientific imagination was a powerful and almost painful rule. What scientists create must match reality. It must match what is already known. Scientific creativity is imagination in a straitjacket. — James Gleick

True Reality Quotes

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi

abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality. — Piet Mondrian

I've come to realize that the biggest problem anywhere in the world is that people's perceptions of reality are compulsively filtered through the screening mesh of what they want, and do not want, to be true. — Travis Walton

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality. - Plato

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality. — Plato

What is true is already so. Owning up to it doesn't make it worse. Not being open about it doesn't make it go away. And because it's true, it is what is there to be interacted with. Anything untrue isn't there to be lived. People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it. — Eugene Gendlin

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not. — Nicolas Cage

Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him. — Evelyn Underhill

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. — Robert J. Ringer

True art lies in a reality that is felt. — Odilon Redon

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true. — Robert Ringer

Reality Tv Quotes

Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead. — Jim Morrison

We want to seam in reality as we are on TV. — James Murray

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on. — George Clooney

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. — Morley Safer

I don't like the negative of reality tv - the 'you're no good, so you have to leave, I choose you, but I thought you really loved me.' It's all about how bad people are and I just hate that. I like Pimp my Ride where someone is helping somebody. — Bob Saget

Reality TV to me is the museum of social decay. — Gary Oldman

When A R Rahman won the Oscars, I had a dream of being able to congratulate him in person. This dream is now a reality thanks to Airtel digital TV. This day will forever remain truly unforgettable. — Mohammed Rafi

Socializing on the internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality. — Aaron Sorkin

Celebrity culture, it's everywhere, isn't it? It's reality TV, Big Brother. I didn't become a footballer to be famous, I became a footballer to be successful. I didn't want to be famous. Now people want to be famous. Why? Why would you want people following you about all day? — Ryan Giggs

There's not enough psychedelic stuff on TV. I want the world to be a bit weirder than it is. I hate reality, so I hate reality TV. But I love Columbo. — Noel Fielding

Reality Television Quotes

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Bill Gates

I think people today are very cynical. They need to bring other people down. Reality television and tabloid magazines—never before did we need to see movie stars taking out their garbage. But all of a sudden, it's front-page news—trying to figure out who's dating whom, all that stuff. Who cares? — Scarlett Johansson

I don''t like this reality television, I have to be honest;I think real people should not be on television; It''s for special people like us, people who have trained and studied to appear to be real — Garry Shandling

Looking at virtual reality through computer screens, video game screens, and above all television screens is a denial of personality development. It's a denial of socialization, of expansion of vocabulary, of interaction with real human beings. — Ralph Nader

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it. — Bo Burnham

I'm a big fan of reality shows. I thought the first one, Dukes of Hazzard, captured white people perfectly. — George Lopez

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal. — Chris Hedges

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life. — David Cassidy

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. — Ellen Burstyn

That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it. — M.C. Beaton

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More Reality Quotes

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. - Herodotus quote

Men trust their ears less than their eyes. — Herodotus

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with. - Dana Gould quote

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with. — Dana Gould

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. - Karl Rahner quote

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. — Karl Rahner

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father. - LL Cool J quote

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father. — LL Cool J

There's no point in living in an alternate reality. - Jessica Cutler quote

There's no point in living in an alternate reality. — Jessica Cutler

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. - Hideo Kojima quote

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. — Hideo Kojima

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. - Frances Farmer quote

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. — Frances Farmer

In Conclusion

Reality-focused quotes bring us face to face with the tangible aspects of life. They remind us that reality encompasses both the positive and negative experiences we encounter. These quotes invite us to embrace the truth and accept it with courage and resilience. Through their concise and impactful expressions, these quotes encourage us to confront challenges head-on and make the most of the opportunities that reality presents. They remind us that by acknowledging and embracing reality, we can navigate through life with a greater sense of clarity and purpose.

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