Quotes About Reality

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

With our thoughts we make the world.

I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder.

The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue.

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

Fact is often stranger than fiction because most writers of fiction try to make their stories plausible.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

The "end of a world" never is and never can be anything but the end of an illusion

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Follow the path of your aroused thought, and you will soon meet this infernal inscription: There is nothing so beautiful as that which does not exist.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

The reality is that I need to be challenged and interested, as long as the risk and reward is in line.

People would rather believe than know.