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Reality |
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 | Reality does not go away when it is ignored. — Thomas Sowell, 1930 -, American political thinker 17 likes |
 | Thoughts become perception, perception becomes reality. Alter your thoughts, alter your reality. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 13 likes |
 | Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 12 likes |
 | In the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 10 likes |
 | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 9 likes |
 | The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 9 likes |
 | Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 8 likes |
 | Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 7 likes |
 | You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 7 likes |
 | All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 7 likes |
 | I like reality. It tastes like bread. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 6 likes |
 | I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 6 likes |
| Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 6 likes |
| It is never the thing but the version of the thing. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 5 likes |
 | I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 5 likes |
| In so far as theories of mathematics speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
 | In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | Humankind cannot bear very much reality. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 5 likes |
 | Reality is frequently inaccurate. — Douglas Adams, 1952-2001, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes |
 | Reality denied comes back to haunt. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 5 likes |
 | The world has become so real that this reality is only bearable at the expense of perpetual denial. “This is not a world,” after “this is not a pipe.” — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 4 likes |
 | Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 4 likes |
 | Any reality is an opinion -we make up our own reality. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 4 likes |
 | No policy is worth anything outside of reality. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 4 likes |
| There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 4 likes |
 | Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form. — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 4 likes |
| Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 4 likes |
 | It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 4 likes |
| Reality is just a point of view. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 4 likes |
 | Play! Invent the world! Invent reality! — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what? — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
| Everything you can imagine is real. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 3 likes |
 | Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 3 likes |
 | Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 3 likes |
| If we are to make reality endurable, we must all nourish a fantasy or two. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 3 likes |
 | A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. — Yoko Ono, 1935-, Japanese artist 3 likes |
 | We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. — Anais Nin, 1903-1977, French writer 3 likes |
 | I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 3 likes |
 | Human imagination is immensely poorer than reality. — Cesare Pavese, 1908-1950, Italian writer 1 likes |
 | Life is full of strange absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true. — Luigi Pirandello, 1867-1936, Italian writer (Nobel 1934) 1 likes |
 | I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
 | The trouble with fiction is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
 | The possible ranks higher than the actual. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher 1 likes |
| How one encounters reality is a choice. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher 1 likes |
 | Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 1 likes |
 | We accept reality so readily – perhaps because we sense that nothing is real. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 1 likes |
| Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 1 likes |
 | You can’t write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. — Philip Roth, 1933-2018, American writer 1 likes |
 | Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | My first line of defense against reality is called sleep. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
 | The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 1 likes |
| Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
| Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
| It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | Invisible things are the only realities. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 1 likes |
 | Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. — Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican painter 1 likes |
 | The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist 1 likes |
 | Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. — Lily Tomlin, 1939-, American actress 1 likes |
Funny Quotes
| Reality continues to ruin my life. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 4 likes |
 | I hate reality but it's still the best place to get a good steak. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
| Reality continues to ruin my life. — Bill Watterson, 1958-, American cartoonist 3 likes |
