You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
– Dr. Seuss
Everything you can imagine is real.
– Pablo Picasso
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
– Tom Clancy
Reality continues to ruin my life.
– Bill Watterson
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
There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to draw it.
– B. Quilliam
Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own.
– Dr. Wade Noble
Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
– Belva Davis
Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs.
– Robin P. Williams
Time is an illusion.
– Albert Einstein
Cutting off a mule’s ears doesn’t make it a horse.
– Creole
The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.
– Robert M. Pirsig
Frustrations come because we impose our illusions on reality.
– Osho
Life is not a dress rehearsal.
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.
– Tupac Shakur
Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
– Alex Haley
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
– Frank Tyger
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
– Robert Brault
When you argue with reality, you lose – but only 100% of the time.
– Byron Katie
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
– Ayn Rand
A refusal to face reality allows it to stab you in the back.
– Dr. Idel Dreimer
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration
– Niccolo Machiavelli
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
– Albert Einstein
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
– Jodi Picoult
It’s easier to change your perception of a situation than it is to actually change your situation – this is why so many people are delusional.
Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it’s there it doesn’t require your belief- and if it’s not there why should you believe in it?
– Terence McKenna
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
– Eugene O’Neill
Expect the worst, but hope for the best.
To accept reality is only to encourage it.
– Robert Brault
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
– John Lennon
Few people have the imagination for reality.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
– George Orwell
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
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
– John Burroughs
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
– Abraham Lincoln
It never rains but it pours.
Looks can be deceiving.
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.
– Henri Bergson
I’m not crazy about reality, but it’s still the only place to get a decent meal.
– Groucho Marx
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
– Nikos Kazantzakis
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
– Gustave Flaubert
Don’t let someone else’s opinion of you become your reality.
– Les Brown
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
– Carl Jung
Nothing is black or white.
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.
– Laozi
The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality. Reality is above all else a variable. With a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
– Jennifer Yane
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.
– Khalil Gibran
Reality is the ultimate illusion.
– Mal Hancock
Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, but the mask that falls off.
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
– Maya Angelou
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
– Alan Watts
Reality is painful – it’s so much easier to keep doing stuff you know you’re good at or else to pick something so hard there’s no point at which it’s obvious you’re failing – but it’s impossible to get better without confronting it.
– Aaron Swartz
The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.
– Chuck Palahniuk
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn’t the dream destroy reality?
– George Augustus Moore
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
– Mason Cooley
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Pleasure may come from illusion, but happiness can come only of reality.
– Nicolas Chamfort
Even monkeys fall out of trees.
– Japanese Proverb
I have no words for my reality.
– Max Frisch
When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.
– Byron Katie
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
Reality is always the dowdy sister to Fancy.
– Dr. Idel Dreimer
You create the realities you inhabit.
– Timothy Leary
You can try and redefine reality as much as you like, but you will eventually encounter someone who won’t play along. Even worse, you might not.
– Alan Robert Neal
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
– T. S. Eliot
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those who are in touch with it.
– Lily Tomlin
Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it’s enough.
– Robert Heller
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
– Garrison Keillor
Perception and reality are two different things.
– Tom Cruise
Nothing ever becomes real ’til it is experienced.
– John Keats
Sometimes I wonder if my life has all been an illusion, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned is that reality is only what you make it.
– Dynamo
No amount of belief makes something a fact.
– James Randi
Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there.
– Robert Brault
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.
– Robert Brault
Okay, who put a “stop payment” on my reality check?
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
– Yoko Ono
If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.
– Dr. Karl Menninger
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
No one goes through life unscathed.
Don’t take anything Personally.Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering
– Don Miguel Ruiz
One bright day in the middle of night two dead boys rose to fight. Back to back they faced each other, drew their swords and shot one another. A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys. If you don’t believe this lie is true, ask the blind man, he saw it too.
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
– Robert Brault
Just because I didn’t like the reality I saw, doesn’t mean I minded seeing it.
– Alan Robert Neal
Candy-coating the truth, to make everyone feel good, deadens people to reality. Dearth of reality melts a society.
– Alan Robert Neal
Everything is the way it is because we’ve all agreed that’s the way it is.
– Charles De Lint
There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
– Marguerite
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
– Jane Wagner
Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on.
Illusion is so fragile; it rarely survive questions.
– Aniekee Tochukwu
One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.
– Tim Burton
I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!
As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can’t see how it is.
– Ram Dass
We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.
– Robert M. Pirsig
Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
– Santosh Kalwar
You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
– Ray Bradbury
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
– Philip K. Dick
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
– John Lennon
Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.
Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
You must be blind if you can’t see
The gaping hole called reality.
What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.
– Robert Brault
How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
– Norman Douglas
Reality bites… and doesn’t let go.
A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.
– George Wald
Reality is not always probable, or likely.
– Jorge Luis Borges
Spend less time complaining about what’s fair, and more time dealing with what’s real.
– Alan Robert Neal
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
– John Steinbeck
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
– Salman Rushdie
Reality is a palette that humans paint on to let themselves sleep better at night.
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
– Henri Bergson
I repeatedly failed at having him choose reality over delusion. Continued attempts would have been abusive to him, while witnessing his decline would have been abusing myself. The kindest choice was to step away and begin loving him from afar.
– Alan Robert Neal
Just because you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s real.
– Alan Robert Neal
You can accept reality without believing every yarn it spins.
– Robert Brault
I’m fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.
– Ben Okri
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
– Alexis Carrel
The minute you alter your perception of yourself and your future, both you and your future begin to change.
– Marilee Zdenek
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
– Leonard Cohen
We live on two levels … the realistic level and the fantastic level, and which is the real one, really?
– Tennesse Williams
Imagination might be scarier than reality … but not by much.
– James Siegel
What happens to the wide- eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?
More times than not, reality doesn’t care what I think.
– Alan Robert Neal
Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
– Cyril Connolly
You can try to control people, or you can try to have a system that represents reality. I find that knowing what’s really happening is more important than trying to control people.
– Larry Page
Reality is a cloud on a windy day.
– Paul Keigwin Vitale
Realism…has no more to do with reality than anything else.
– Hob Broun
Astrology is just a finger pointing at reality.
– Steven Forrest
If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.
– Christopher Meloni
All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
– Marcel Proust
At some point, reality has its day.
Reality is something you rise above.
– Liza Minnelli
Isn’t reality an insatiable AIDS- riddled whore?
– Roberto Bolano