Reality Quotes - page 5

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. (Odilon Redon)
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. View quote
Émile Durkheim
All of our separate fictions add up to joint reality. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories. View quote
Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. View quote
John Ruskin
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. View quote
L. Neil Smith
I think that reality exists and that it's knowable. View quote
Jimmy Wales
I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. View quote
Jim Henson
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. View quote
Emil Cioran
Reality is a creation of our excesses. View quote
Emil Cioran
There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality. (Jonas Salk)
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. View quote
François Mitterrand
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. View quote
Seneca
Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality. View quote
Jacque Fresco
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much reality in life. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. View quote
Edward Albee
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. View quote
Edward Albee
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle drugs. View quote
Lily Tomlin
Drugs are marvelous if you want to escape, but reality is so rich, why escape? View quote
Geraldine Chaplin
Everything is a dangerous drug to me except reality, which is unendurable. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought.... life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. (Clarice Lispector)
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them. View quote
Camille Paglia
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. View quote
Karen Armstrong
Do not, under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth. View quote
Azar Nafisi
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. View quote
Edith Sitwell