Quotation Explorer - 'Reality I'

The real trouble with reality is that there is no background music. - Anonymous
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. - Philip K. Dick
It was the end for something. It was the beginning for another. But in reality it just fell in the middle. In that confusing moment of time between my birth and my death. - Hubert Martin
Perception is reality in the absence of fact - Pieter BF Swart
Theology starts with a crisis, the very crisis of reality itself. The crisis is the fact that you live, that you have a life to live. The crisis is the very mystery of our existence and the yearning for there to be some kind of meaning to it. - Andrew Root
Reality is symbolicof an unseen insanity - Carl-John X Veraja
We are who people think we are. The reality is irrelevant. - Lionel Suggs
When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people. - Solange nicole
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person. - Gao Xingjian
Your reality is a reflection of yourself - Avis J. Williams
Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here. - Leo Tolstoy
Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever. - Ian Thomas Curtis
Men and women fall in love abandoning reality in favour of the dream - Jeremy Griffith
Sometimes what you see is not real, and the reality is not what you see. Somewhere between both these reasoning resides a fact: where there is a lack of trust and confidence, perception will always differ with reality. - Ashish Patel
The reality is that every single person is individual and special. There has never been and will never be another person on the Earth like you! - Frank Wanderer
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Time is not just behind; it's after and now. To create more reality is to create more time and to do that is to create a structure and then to take it to the next Level. - J.T.Abraham
Reality is the manifestation of the inner workings, carried out by the supreme powers. Whatever you think and do right now, either positive or negative is working on your behalf because you are a co-worker of the divine. - Michael Bassey Johnson
A girl who travels knows that deep down she is escaping reality. So she’ll want someone to give her hope and land back to the idea that reality isn’t as bad as it seems in the end. And if she tells you she loves you - it is exactly because you give her that hope - lauren klarfeld
Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world. - Ales Kot
Reality is what you gets in life. - Adeeb
The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to. - Raphael Zernoff
Reality is in Time; and Time; in the Universe. - J.T.Abraham
Reality is not always probable, or likely. - Jorge Luis Borges
Sometimes, reality is the illusion, and the truth only visible where our eyes can’t see.- Lady Lalaigne - Jeanine Henning
Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. - Richie Norton
Abnormal radiation exposure and oxygen starvation teaches you that reality is just a perception that is derived from your immediate environmental conditions. - Steven Magee
Reality is what won't go away when you stop beliving in it.
If reality is as equally valuable as fiction, then you should just chalk up the parts of the past you don’t need to your imagination - Ryohgo Narita
Reality is politically incorrect, winners embrace this, losers don’t. - Illimitable Man
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh). - Idries Shah
Understanding of reality is the main key of happiness :) - Arya vidhan
I feign fullness, but in reality I am achingly empty. And it is because I too often sit at the table of the world instead of the feet of God. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Reality is what you look at and what you make of it. All in between is how you are. - Diana Matoso
The true reality is love; it fills the gaps. - Debasish Mridha
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. - George Santayana
The reality is that there is nothing so vulgar left in human experience for which some educator from some institution cannot be found to justify it. In the name of literary license, anything passes off as permissible.
Papa said that I should never be jealous of another's marriage. Whatever joys I imagine them having are just my imaginings. The reality is far more complicated and vast. - Laura Moncur
Terus saja merajut mimpi dengan ilusi-ilusi yang tidak pernah pasti. Tapi, tidak di iringi oleh aksi-aksi yang berarti. Ketahuilah "The distance between dreams and reality is called actions - Alfisy0107
Each and every day we manifest our own reality and this reality is experienced by a series of meaningful coincidences that we attract into our awareness by means of focused thought and vibrational alignment. - LJ Vanier
Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit! - Giuseppe Bianco
I am a storyteller, spiraling fantasy and reality into mystical tales. That eerie space between fact and fiction, where only the brightest light can scare the shadows—you will find me there. - Sara Frost
The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you. - Shannon L. Alder
I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision, you lose a world of possibilities. But the reality is, until you make a decision, you have nothing at all. - Janet Fitch
True inner peace can startle you! Be happy, smile, have fun. But only look for inner peace when you actually need it. After all, it is the fusion of every atoms of reality itself. - MD. Muhtashimur Rahman
Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them. - Debasish Mridha
Reality is a dream that someone was brave enough to conquer. - Shannon L. Alder
Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality. - Romain Gary
Reality is okay if you have a friend that will help you up when it comes around to smack you in the face. - Xena Thornton
Imagination is reality in one's mind waiting to come out at right time with enough efforts. - Prerak Trivedi
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
Reality is a changeless concept that only perception can mask. - Lionel Suggs
Reality is a challenge. - Auliq Ice
Reality is only for people with no imagination. - Gavin Freeman
Reality is based on, and controlled by, our thoughts. - Christine Rice
Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there. - Adam Young
Reality is not a limiting factor - AA Freda
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction. - Gene Wolfe
But morning casts a harsh light over things, and the stark reality is that some things are easier to walk away from than to lose forever. But that doesn’t mean that this doesn’t hurt. - andyoureturntome
Reality is how you look at it - Diana Matoso
What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination. - Joey Lawsin
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Reality is different with different states of mind. - Debasish Mridha
Because I keep it real and reality is a ruthless bitch. Plus I wanna make money you cool with that? - Gable - J.M. August
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Jane Wagner
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real. - Tupac Shakur
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. - C.S. Lewis
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence. - Richelle E. Goodrich
love an invisible force that makes you realize that reality is better than fantasy. - Aonymous girl
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
To say that a writer's hold on reality is tenuous is an understatement-it's like saying the Titanic had a rough crossing. Writer's build their own realities, move into them and occasionally send letters home. The only difference between a writer and a crazy person is that a writer gets paid for it. - David Gerrold
Reality is only just a word.
Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place. - Justin Alcala
Only if God IS ultimate reality, can he be our unconditional concern; only then can he be the object of surrender, obedience, and assent. Faith in anything which has only preliminary reality is idolatrous. - Paul Tillich
To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world. - Katherine P. Ewing
This change in the conception of reality is the most profound and the most fruitful that physics has experienced since the time of .{Referring to James Clerk Maxwell's contributions to physics} Albert Einstein - Newton
Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words-these alone are without effect. - Abdu'l-Bahá
Your dreams will be your reality if you don't fear them and have enough courage to act on them. - Debasish Mridha
When reality is better than your dreams, stay awake. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The most powerful creative state to bring your desires into reality is by bring the conscious and subconscious into unison then keeping your heart and mind in perfect sync. - Steven Redhead
Our individual reality is borne out of our interpretations. Interpretations come from our experiences. - L.R.W. Lee
I Speculate on the origins of the universe .But in reality i believe the true facts are those of simple origins.And the universe is for sure out there. - Charlie waud
First you must face your own reality in the present, here and now! If you fail to do that, if you do not obtain first-hand experience from it, there will be no deep, far-reaching changes in you. - Frank Wanderer
The only reality is the now. Why live in the tomorrows and the yesterdays? Live now. - Jill Telford
Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. - Lily Tomlin
reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are. - Robert J. Ringer
The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself. - Noam Chomsky
Virtual Reality is like mainlining television. - William Gibson
I just could not leave the people who ever fill my heart. But if people leave, well, like today myself. That's why I'm afraid to get acquainted with a lot of people because I'm afraid of losing a lot of people too. In reality I always get acquainted with many people, how is this? - Vea Dreamer
Thought: everyone had their own thought, but those who writes had their own view and people make several views on that one view. Its not fair, he who thinks only can describe what the reality is not by others. - Nutan Bajracharya
The only real difficulty with becoming disciplined is when you buy into the notion that happiness comes at the price of sacrifice. The reality is this: Discipline becomes freedom when you are doing what you love. - Shannon L. Alder
Oftentimes people expect Christians to be perfect but the reality is...Spiritual perfection is imperfection! God then does His best work. - Sanjo Jendayi
Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie. - Garrett Robinson
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. - Alan Watts
Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. - Stephen Richards
All truth starts out as a wish; hence, reality is born from fairytale."from—"My Aquarius - Richelle E. Goodrich
Reality is seeing that the peace in a picture is a dream. - Lee Wen
There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts...memories can't be enough. - Eiry Nieves
You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Karsten Andersen
Scientific reality is as different from lived reality as a slide rule is from a platypus. - Marty Rubin
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. - Philip K. Dick
When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material. - Compton Gage
Give me FICTION, REALITY is OVERRATED! - Lily Velden
Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone! - Kemi Sogunle
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. - Robin McLaurin Williams
I don't want to base my life on a symbol," he said resolutely. "I want reality, and the Christian faith has always been rooted in reality. What's not rooted in reality is the faith of liberal scholars. They're the ones who are following a pipe dream, but Christianity is not a pipe dream. - Gregory A. Boyd
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. - Jane Wagner
Without an adequate theory, reality is irrelevant.
From dreams reality is born. - Sheila Parker
Your dreams become your reality if you have the courage to act on them. - Debasish Mridha
Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We’d set up a partition, separate what’s important to us from what was trash, put only the things we loved on our side, and got rid of the rest. - Ryohgo Narita
Reality is something you rise above. - Liza Minnelli
Reality isn't what it used to be.
Reality is Like Mother NatureSometimes BeautifulSometimes Painful Sometimes Memorable Sometimes ForgetfulSometimes CaringSometimes HarshBut we all Accept it Because its the Same For EVERYONE! - Look Im A Cat
Success is possible to anyone who sets his heart to it. Whatever we dream of can become reality if we put ourselves to work. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. - Charles Baudelaire
A dream? With you, reality is always as a dream. There is no greater fantasy, no grander epic, than being with you. - Zechariah Barrett
Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. - Jean-Luc Godard
Reality is a construct. You are what you think you are. - Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
Reality is what you think. - Adeeb
Reality is not what we see, reality is what we think we see. - Erik Pevernagie
You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. - Dr. Seuss
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all. - Adam Smith
We all have a childhood dream that when there is love, everything goes like silk, but the reality is that marriage requires a lot of compromise. - Raquel Welch
When a beautiful reality looks unreal, you will realize that the beauty of reality is superior to any dream whatsoever! - Mehmet Murat ildan
A short story is a writer's way of thinking through experience... Journalism aims at accuracy, but fiction's aim is truth. The writer distorts reality in the interest of a larger truth. - John L'Heureux
If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is! - Mehmet Murat ildan
In an era where Existence is incontestable, Truth is subjective, and Reality is perceived, fiction must mediate between the three. - Henry Martin
Reality is only as true as it is perceived. Reality does not change. How it is perceived does. - Murad S. Shah
She was our guardian angel. Lucy saved us from mystery. Without her, our marriage would be ruined. Her disappearance created an open wound that we can't fix but the most devasting reality is probably the fact that her body will never be found. She is a living ghost in Wilmington, North Carolina. - Chloé Danielo
For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent. - Debasish Mridha
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. - Henry Kissinger
Reality is a life sentence. - Carl-John X Veraja
People always say that they want to understand so that they can believe. But in MY reality it’s just the opposite. I believe because I DON’T understand. I HAVE to believe, because there’s no other way to explain what I’m seeing, feeling, or experiencing. - Sean Patrick Flanery
Reality is the dream for the subconscious mind. - Debasish Mridha
Harsh reality is always better than false hope. - Downton Abbey
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal. - Terence McKenna
A director's dream? No, Bollywood reality in 1995.Business is booming, but cliché's are passée. A different sort of breeze-fresh, young-is unsettling fatigued conventions. - Anupama Chopra
But one needs to bear in mind that things are not always what they seem and, contrary to the dead stillness of a photograph, reality is in a state of perpetual flux. - Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Chaos is the score upon which reality is written. - Henry Miller
Putting heart & soul & contributing to what you are good at... is only for that movement. All is forgotten & people sitting far a distance knowingly wouldn't accept the same. Ultimately we make no difference & ground zero reality is never taken into account. - Stephen Manoharan
I live always in my dream, so reality is my dream and dream is my reality. - Debasish Mridha
Reality is complicated. There is no justification for all of the hasty conclusions. - Hideki Yukawa
Reality is not enough for us, that’s why we have invented art to create different realities! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Reality is wrong. Dreams are for the real. - Tupac Shakur
You should not expect your dreams to become a reality if you do not do something about it. - Kindle Korner
... parents naturally want their children to excel in every area of academics and extra-curricular activities, but the reality is- God made each child differently for His purpose. He never intended for our children to excel in everything. - Tamara L. Chilver
Illusion is whatever is fixed or definable, and reality is best understood as its negation… - Northrop Frye
Love makes reality invisible and no one around you can understand why you do the things you do, for something that can cause you so much pain. Because you know after all the fighting, tears, and uncertainty, it's all worth it. - Auliq Ice
Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it. - Russell Eric Dobda
Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth. - Christy Leigh Stewart
Reality is in the hand of the masturbator. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Perception is the reality in the absence of fact. - Pieter BF Swart
Reality is perceptual misinterpretation. To change reality, change your perception. - Debasish Mridha
Dreams are fragile. Reality is a clumsy postman. - Faye McCray
My reality isn't as gracious as it use to be, so I create things that are. - Nikki Rowe
Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things. - Osman Bakar
Fiction may amuse us, but reality instills lessons to be imbibed through experience; to 'live' this stark reality called 'life' as a blessing, whereas some foolishly waste it by following fiction and fictitious characters. - Henrietta Newton Martin
Do you think you’re not ‘ready’ to start that big story idea/project you’ve been thinking about forever?Jump in. Write anyway. The only way to make the impossible a reality is to take a leap of faith. - M. Kirin
No dream can be more beautiful than the reality itself! - Mehmet Murat ildan
To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better. - Warren Ellis
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. - Philip K. Dick
Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant. - J.G. Ballard
The reality is that the only people who count are those who believe in you no matter what. The ones who stand beside you when hell crawls through, nipping at your heels because they know who you really are. - Joan Swan
Sand in reality is nothing else than very small stones. - Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. - Richie Norton
Reality is a perceptual illusion we have accepted as truth. - Debasish Mridha
Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet. - Dean Cavanagh
If ‘one’ really were the sufferer or the enjoyer, then he would get tired. But the Self in reality is not experiencing anything. He simply does egoism only. - Dada Bhagwan
I have a tendency to break rules and shake things up. I would say that with me people never know what is real and what is fiction. And I like that because reality is relative. - Nuno Roque
Many use the word Kingdom flippantly. Even though we sing about it in our praise songs, we talk about it in our sermons, yet we seem to still not understand its reality in our daily lives. - Sunday Adelaja
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