Reality Quotes and Sayings

Time is an illusion.
– Albert Einstein

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

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 is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
– John Lennon

As long as you have certain desires about how it ought to be, you can’t see how it is.
– Ram Dass

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality.
– Marguerite

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

More times than not, reality doesn’t care what I think.
– Alan Robert Neal

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
– Frank Tyger

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

Everything is the way it is because we’ve all agreed that’s the way it is.
– Charles De Lint

To accept reality is only to encourage it.
– Robert Brault

Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.
– Jennifer Yane

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.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
– Mahatma Gandhi

It never rains but it pours.

Reality is a cloud on a windy day.
– Paul Keigwin Vitale

Reality is always the dowdy sister to Fancy.
– Dr. Idel Dreimer

Few people have the imagination for reality.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sometimes it’s not the person who changes, but the mask that falls off.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration
– Niccolo Machiavelli

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

Just because you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s real.
– Alan Robert Neal

Spend less time complaining about what’s fair, and more time dealing with what’s real.
– Alan Robert Neal