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Reality Quotes



"For some, life may be a playground to undermine the brainwaves of others or simply a vainglorious game with an armory of theatrics, illustrating only bleak self-deception, haughty narcissism and dim deficiency in empathy. ['Another empty room']"


"My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality."


"Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and their private life is not beautiful as their public life...fear beauty!"



"But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."


"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."


"The sciences which take socio-historical reality as their subject matter are seeking, more intensively than ever before, their systematic relations to one another and to their foundation."


"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."


"In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment."


"The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be."


"All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape."


"What we think affects our life so much that life is for each of us just what we think it is. So the question of what life means has individual answers for each of us."


"We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is."


"In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear."


"I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, and I'm happy, Doctor, I finally won out over it."


"Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded."


"It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality."


"What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting."


"When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world."


"If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV."


"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality."


"What is right and what is practicable are two different things."


"Sometimes I feel like I'm a contestant in a reality show that probably would be called The Apprentice Survivor Millionaire."


"No matter how ugly a fruit is, worms will seek it out."


"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."


"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."


"It is a shock to many college graduates that their segway into the real world is one of obligation, profound debt, and countless sacrifices of the soul."


"I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality."


"It is a very remarkable and significant fact that though no man is quite well or healthy yet every one believes practically that health is the rule & disease the exception."


"The world's not getting any stranger.We are!"


"Harry Potter isn't real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don't know who you are or what your name is or where you're from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter's real and you're not."


"It is a mistake," LabruyA re tells us, "to be in love without an ample fortune."


"We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight."



"This isn't my excuse, this is my reality."


"In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality."


"The notion of the world as a village is becoming a reality."


"In reality, the most important things happen when you don't look for them."
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