Reality Quotes

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Reality is a sliding door.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

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

Few people have the imagination for reality.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

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.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.

People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

Nobody is here to fulfill your dream. Everybody is here to fulfill his own destiny, his own reality.

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

Reality: What a concept!

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

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

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape?

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

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

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

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

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

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

We have to face the reality of climate change. It is arguably the biggest threat we are facing today.