Reality Quotes - page 4

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion. (Max Jacob)
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
Max Jacob
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
Manuel Puig
Hope is the denial of reality. - Raistlin.
Margaret Weis
Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.
Mary Higgins Clark
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Thom Mayne
Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
Juliette Lewis
In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.
Eugenio Montale
When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free. (Zack Snyder)
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
Zack Snyder
Memories are made of peculiar stuff, elusive and yet compelling, powerful and fleet. You cannot trust your reminiscences, and yet there is no reality except the one we remember......
Klaus Mann
War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.
John McCain
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
John Updike
When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.
John Updike
We look upon economic theory as a sequence of conceptual models that seek to express in simplified form different aspects of an always more complicated reality.
Tjalling Koopmans
Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.
Michael Pollan
Fact and fiction carry the same intrinsic weight in the marketplace of ideas. Fortunately, reality has no advertising budget.
Daniel Suarez
Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John Lennon
Knowing reality means constructing systems of transformations that correspond, more or less adequately, to reality. (Jean Piaget)
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
William James
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Henry David Thoreau
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.
Ayn Rand
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
J. G. Ballard