Profoundly inspirational reality quotes will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.
Famous Reality Quotes
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? John Lennon
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. Lewis Carroll
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable. Jess C. Scott
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. John Lennon
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t teach you how to love somebody. They don’t teach you how to be famous. They don’t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don’t teach you how to walk away from someone you don’t love any longer. They don’t teach you how to know what’s going on in someone else’s mind. They don’t teach you what to say to someone who’s dying. They don’t teach you anything worth knowing. Neil Gaiman
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane. Philip K. Dick
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. Mark Twain
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now? John Lennon
The imaginary is what tends to become real. André Breton
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. Philip K. Dick
We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved. C. JoyBell C.
Reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs. Robin Williams
It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. Rick Riordan
Reality is not always probable, or likely. Jorge Luis Borges
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. Michelle Hodkin
Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface. A. Lee Martinez
One person’s craziness is another person’s reality. Tim Burton
Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn’t want to live there. Adam Young
Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. Anaïs Nin
Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor. Wallace Stevens
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction. Rachel Carson
Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong sized shoe. How can anyone stand it? Jandy Nelson
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. Cormac McCarthy
What if reality is nothing but some disease? Chuck Palahniuk
To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one. Rainbow Rowel
Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about. Stephen Richards
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. Jane Wagner
Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. Lewis Carroll
Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays. Aldous Huxley
Reality is frequently inaccurate. Douglas Adams
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. Dr. Seuss
Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am I real if you can see me and hear me, but only through the internet? Are you real if I can read your comment but I don’t know who you are or what your name is or where you’re from or what you look like or how old you are? I know all of those things about Harry Potter. Maybe Harry Potter’s real and you’re not. John Green
We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will. Chuck Palahniuk
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. Lao Tzu
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. Karen Marie Moning
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. Shirley Jackson
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. Hermann Hesse
I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting. Gayle Forman
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. Arthur Canon Doyle
A fit, healthy body that is the best fashion statement. Jess C Scott
It’s funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality. Rick Riordan
You don’t have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is. Red Haircrow
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. Cormac McCarthy
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. George Orwell
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan Wilson Watts
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. Frank Herbert
Reality is just a crutch for people who can’t handle drugs. Robin Williams
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal. George Orwell
Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. Voltaire
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside of them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself. Hermann Hesse
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot
There is no point in using the word impossible to describe something that has clearly happened. Douglas Adams
One person’s craziness is another person’s reality. Tim Burton
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. Mark Twain
To really be a nerd, she’d decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one. Rainbow Rowell
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T. S. Eliot
We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN. B. W. Powe
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that mourn, and I accept it. I’ve got nothing that I hadn’t bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination. C.S. Lewis
Look at him now, poor fellow. That’s what a dose of reality does for you. Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations. Alan Moore
The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie. Shannon L. Alder
Fantasy was always only a reality waiting to be switched on. Joe Hill
You don’t get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd. Neil Gaiman
Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic. Young ha Kim
I hate how I don’t feel real enough unless people are watching. Chuck Palahniuk
I hope you enjoy reading this collection of powerful reality quotes. Let me know which one you like most.
