Reality Quotes

"The reason why there are so many characters who suffer in my games is that I want to show reality."

"Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow."

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."

Samuel Johnson

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

Carl Sagan

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

"Truth exists; only lies are invented."

Georges Braque

"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie."

Miyamoto Musashi

"Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves."

G. K. Chesterton

"Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality."

Theodor Reik

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell

"Marriage is a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."

Beverley Nichols

"Science is a game – but a game with reality, a game with sharpened knives."

Erwin Schrödinger

"Poetry is the deification of reality."

Edith Sitwell

"A good poem is a contribution to reality."

Dylan Thomas

"There is no greater mystery than this, that we keep seeking reality though in fact we are reality."

Ramana Maharshi

“I accept Reality and dare not question it.”

“Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.”

“Reality: what a concept!”

“I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.”

"Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form."

Jean-Luc Godard

"Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."

"Everything you can imagine is real."

Pablo Picasso

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

Edgar Allan Poe

"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau