Reality Quotes · Page 243

People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you.

— Layne Staley

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

— Michel Houellebecq

“To be fully awake is a choice to face the stark realities that we would much prefer to avoid. And it is…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events.

— Robert Penn Warren

Sometimes true love turns out to be a lie, forever turns out to be just one day, and the prince turns out…

— Bernajoy Vaal

We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpected, to be-aquired reality that…

— Haruki Murakami

Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God…

— Chinmayananda Saraswati

Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole.

— Carl Jung

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Yes, I know you love me, but not the same way that I love you. I wish you weren't my whole world.…

— Francine Chiar

In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it…

— Victor Hugo

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on!…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“I live in a world where people are guided by limited imagination; only facts that are favorable to them are truths. They…

— Lionel Suggs

Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change…

— Eyedea

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep…

— Annabella Sciorra

The reality, as I have come to understand it, is that the future is not fixed, and that therefore it cannot be…

— Steven Forrest

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

— Sherry Turkle

I'm really grounded in reality and God and my family and friends, so I don't want to be famous.

— Megan Stalter

This is a vision Kaufman and Broad shares with Henry Cisneros, and together we have the resources and expertise to make vital…

— Bruce Karatz

We're all divorced from reality; the only question is whether you're paying alimony or receiving it.

— John Alejandro King Aka The Covert Comic

Girls have unique powers; they get wet without water, bleed without injury and make boneless things hard ..

— Anonymous

“The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic”

— Edith Wharton

I was a microscopic life-form, infinitely large, stumbled backstage of its playhouse, caught a nanosecond glance of its own reality and nearly…

— Anonymous

Many investors seem to have forgotten a hard reality: There are frequent periods when stock markets don't do much.

— Jim Rogers

“It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical…

— Paulo Coelho

Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and…

— Dallas Willard

“Art is just another way to describe and classify reality – its mystical aspects merely a function of ignorance.”

— Neal Asher

I expect that everything I do will be not watched or not seen. That way, I'm never disappointed when I become flooded…

— Ron Perlman

“So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself, to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.”

— Sweara Ahmed

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Art’s only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

— Jean Rousset

The greatest horror in the world is not finding a monster but finding out you are the monster.

— Anonymous

“the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience’.”

— Alain de Botton

I've always preferred mythology to history. History is truth that becomes an illusion. Mythology is an illusion that becomes reality.

— Jean Cocteau

The world is innately good, & we move forward accepting reality as it is...and we don't pretend. We accept.

— Ben Runyan

When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful…

— Melinda Gates

I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

— Sally Field

The truth is like an alarm clock, you might not want to hear it, but it can wake you up from your…

— Anonymous

“Whatever view one takes of the outcome being affected by morale, it seems certain that the realm of illusion must be escaped…

— Christopher Hitchens