Reality quotes

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

Reality is a sliding door.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

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.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Seeing is not always believing.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

My life is real.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Oh my God – this is scary and sad all at the same time. I literally dream about buying my own groceries. Swear to God. Because it is something that is real and normal.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Our intention creates our reality.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

Anyone can be a moral individual, concerned with human rights and problems; but only a college professor, a trained expert, can solve technical problems by ‚sophisticated‘ methods. Ergo, it is only problems of the latter sort that are important or real.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.