Reality Quotes

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave", 1945
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gautie
The best Web sites are better than reality.
Jakob Nielsen, Usability consultant
Reality continues to ruin my life.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Albert einstein - reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very...
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality.
Joseph Conrad
Hermann hesse - there is no reality except the one contained...
History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
Cicero
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
Anais Nin
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
Peter McWilliams
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
Philip K. Dick, Valis
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.
Warren Bennis
Margaret weis - hope is the denial of reality....
A plan is just a tangent vector on the manifold of reality.
"Scratch" Garrison
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
Alexis Carrel
A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Doubt of the reality of love ends by making us doubt everything.
Henri Frdric Amiel
Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
Peter Sellers
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultie
Human beings cannot stand too much reality.
Thomas S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Self - Pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.
John W. Gardne
The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney Harris
Heaven is not the wide blue sky but the place where corporeality is begotten in the house of the Creative.
Lu Yen
Must be out - Of - Doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Henry David Thoreau
Be as radical as reality.
Lenin
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.
Theodor Reik
Mental health increases as we pursue reality at all cost.
M. Scott Peck
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.
Allen Ginsberg
Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.
Melissa Maye
Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
T. S. Eliot
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 Kissinge
The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Socrates
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas H. Everett
An artist does not fake reality - - He *stylizes* it.
Ayn Rand, From the article "Art and Sense of Life" in The Romantic Manifesto
Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Theodore Harold White
All the best stories 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.
A. C. Benson