Reality quotes
Welcome to our collection of Reality quotes. Reality is an ever-present force in our lives, shaping our experiences and perceptions. It is the fabric of truth that binds us to the world around us. From the mundane to the extraordinary, reality serves as a constant reminder of our existence and the undeniable nature of things.
In this collection, you will find a diverse range of quotes that explore the concept of reality from various perspectives. Some quotes may delve into the harshness of reality, confronting the challenges and hardships we encounter in our daily lives. Others may celebrate the beauty and wonders that reality has to offer, inspiring us to embrace the present moment.
These quotes may bring you moments of introspection, prompting you to question your own beliefs and perceptions of reality. They may offer a fresh perspective or a glimpse of insight into the intricacies of the world we inhabit. Whether you seek inspiration, motivation, or simply a deeper understanding of the truth, we hope this collection of Reality quotes will provide you with a journey of thought-provoking exploration.
Browse through our selection and let the words of philosophers, scientists, artists, and thinkers from various walks of life guide you on your quest to unravel the mysteries of reality. May these quotes serve as a reminder of the power and importance of embracing and understanding the truth that surrounds us.
Kathryn Stockett
— Novelist....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWe come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form - yet the art-work is elaborately artificial, the very genre of tragedy in poetry an anti-naturalist perspective.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.
Antonio Machado
— PoetThe great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
E. B. White
— Versatile Writer & Author of Beloved ClassicsBut real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.
Russell Hoban
— Versatile Author & Creative StorytellerIf reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts.
Ricky Martin
— MusicianI don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
Craig Stone
— English footballerWe dream of the world we could have made, and wake up in the world that we did.
Niecy Nash
— American actress, comedian and television hostReality does get a bad rap. But I'm not concerned about it 'cause I know who I am. They can edit it, but you are in charge of what you do.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorLike a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWe accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.
Antonio Machado
— PoetBetween living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestAs soon as you raise a thought and begin to form an idea of it, you ruin the reality itself, because you then attach yourself to form.
Craig Stone
— English footballerBetter to live dreaming, than dream of living.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorBut he doesn't love her. I invented that. It is a plot if you imagine people in love--the lazy looping criss crosses of love, blows, stares, tears. No. It doesn't happen. No love. People meet, touch, stare into one another's faces, shake their heads clear, move on, forget. It doesn't happen.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
D.T. Suzuki
— Pioneer of Zen Buddhism in the WestThe intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThat's how a thing starts out real then ends up just an idea.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterWe (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorWhen people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterYou have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened.
Joyce Carol Oates
— AuthorThere is nothing "ordinary" about reality.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterReality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThen he reflected that reality does not usually coincide with our anticipation of it; with a logic of his own he inferred that to forsee a circumstantial detail is to prevent its happening. Trusting in this weak magic, he invented, so that they would not happen, the most gruesome details.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterEmma dropped the paper. Her first impression was of a weak feeling in her stomach and in her knees; then of blind guilt, of unreality, of coldness, of fear; then she wished that it were already the next day. Immediately afterwards she realized that that wish was futile because the death of her father was the only thing that had happened in the world, and it would go on happening endlessly.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterReality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterMany people have thought of me as a thinker, as a philosopher, or even as a mystic. Well the truth is that though I have found reality perplexing enough - in fact, I find it gets more perplexing all the time - I never think of myself as a thinker.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterYou will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterThe certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.
Jorge Luis Borges
— WriterI am attracted to fantastic writing, and fantastic reading, of course. But I think things that we call fantastic may be real, in the sense of being real symbols.