Quotes About Reality

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.

I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the things we imagine and the things that exist.

The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.

Reality surpasses imagination; and we see, breathing, brightening, and moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep.

It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

Looking back, I guess I used to play-act all the time. For one thing, it meant I could live in a more interesting world than the one around me.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangible, invisible mentality.

To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!

Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?

Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Katie smiled and turned away, knowing it wasn't an illusion or a figment of her imagination. She knew what she saw. She knew what she believed.

Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on.