Reality Quotes

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Oscar Wilde

The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively.

Niels Bohr

I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or explain. The things we couldn't explain went right on but surely not with our blessing. We did not see what we couldn't explain, and meanwhile a great part of the world was abandoned to children, insane people, fools, and mystics, who were more interested in what is than in why it is. So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic, because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

John Steinbeck

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

Oscar Wilde

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth -- yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it's best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it you can change the world.

Vera Nazarian

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

Eric Chaisson

Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?

Doug Dillon

I could never really manage to tell reality and my dream world apart, for the two of them co-existed together as they slid over top of each other.

Shvaugn Craig

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

George Orwell

When you view your world exclusively through the lens of science, your prescription will never be strong enough.

Jay Nichols

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

Samuel Beckett

Life is difficult.

M Scott Peck

Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.

Mike Norton

Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality

Munia Khan

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

Terry Pratchett

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Margaret Thatcher

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

Neal Shusterman

Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.

Ralph Ellison in Juneteenth

There had always been a conflict in me between mystery and meaning. I had pursued tha latter, worshipped the latter as a doctor. As a socialist and rationalist. But then I saw that the attempt to scientize reality, to name it and categorize it and vivisect it out of existence, was like trying to remove the air from the atmosphere. In the creating of the vacuum it was the experimenter who died, because he was inside the vacuum.

John Fowles

There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.

Neil Gaiman