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Quotes About Reality

The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.
~ Susan Branch
If you choose to live in solutions, the world eagerly awaits your dreams and provides every tool and opportunity you need to turn them into reality
~ Tony Jeary
The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.
~ Unknown
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
~ Zoë Heller
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
~ Patrick Dempsey
Hollywood has always been a cage...a cage to catch our dreams
~ John Huston
Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.
~ James Franco
There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?
~ Elizabeth Bishop
I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
~ Manuel Puig
Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality
~ Oliver Sacks
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
~ Diogenes Laertius
The dreamer dreams, and the dreamer within the dream dreams.
~ Jane Roberts
When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.
~ Hugh Jackman
If what's inside your dreams wasn't already real inside you, you couldn't even dream it.
~ Gloria Steinem
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
~ Robert Breault
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Beautiful dreams - if the world were more beautiful they would come true - But the world is relentless & cruel - people are - they must be, I suppose, or they could not live.
~ Alfred Stieglitz
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
~ Rudyard Kipling
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?
~ Robin Hobb
It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
~ Martin Mull
But to find out the truth about how dreams die, one should never take the word of the dreamer.
~ Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye