Reality Quotes

How do I know you're not crazy?" she asks. "How do I know you're not the craziest dude I've ever met...

The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree...

I had dreamed of something so different from what reality was now offering up, but that dream had be...

Reality is as thin as paper, and betrays with all its cracks its imitative character.

Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of ...

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the patte...

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies t...

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they tha...

The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes ar...

Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what onl...

Of the things that followed I cannot at all say whether they were what men call real or what men cal...

Men have sacrificed and crippled themselves physically and emotionally to feed, house, and protect w...

Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my s...

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a cont...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality...

Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal intro...

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the univer...

It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional p...

The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a...

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled ...

Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and the...

Now, back in the reality that always lies in wait among the shadows of the Ensanche quarter, the enc...

You don't look well," he pronounced."Indigestion," I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having...

I think that's just a story.""But, Jace," she said. "All stories are true.

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. De...

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is onl...

Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that...

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I ...

I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever...

To satisfy our doubts . . . it is necessary that a method should be found by which our beliefs may b...

It may be asked how I know that there are any Reals. If this hypothesis is the sole support of my me...

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face wit...

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Besides, I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the form...

It was Valentine's Day and I had spent the day in bed with my life partner, Ketel One. The two of us...

I know, I know," Moore said. "Mad beliefs like that, eh? Must be some metaphor, right? Must mean som...

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which enc...

It takes intelligence to make real comedy, and it takes a reality base to create all that little stu...

But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he ...

In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to...

The deeper reality is that I’m not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I’m certain abo...

But I still feel like I lost.We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifet...

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say ...

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we don't understand. How we need everything labeled ...

Good news didn't seem real until you'd told at least a dozen friends.

some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watc...

For sure, even the worst blow job is better than, say, sniffing the best rose ... watching the great...

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Eve...

We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late. I...

I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable...

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily...

It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in ...

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every mom...

Faculty X is simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present. After all...

In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Bet...

The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligati...

There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cann...

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality, known or not.

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the wo...

Reality ground my expectations into microscopic particles.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...

Horror is the law of the world of living creatures, and civilization is concerned with masking that ...

Reality calls for a name, for words, but it is unbearable, and if it is touched, if it draws very cl...

The work of human thought should withstand the test of brutal, naked reality. If it cannot, it is wo...

Doffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.

The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without...

Forgive them, you might say, for they know not what they do. But there comes a moment in history whe...

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality o...

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Reality is neurology, and is not absolute.

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and ...

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and ...

Odysseus draped the towel over his shoulders and stretched his back. "You remember practicing with w...

I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the go...

Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force u...

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's ...

Where does fiction end and reality begin?

We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility ...

...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know.

Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control a...

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpr...

In India they tell a fable about this: There was once a great devotee of Vishnu who prayed night and...

By convention sweet and by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention c...

For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn ret...

The world is not divided between Christ and the devil; it is completely the world of Christ, whether...

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For...

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, ju...