Quotes of Reality - somelinesforyou

“ Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality. ”

- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“ Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible. ”

- Dr. Karl Menninger

“ Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks. ”

- Ellen Herman

“ I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ”

- Garrison Keillor

“ The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else. ”

- Hob Broun

“ Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ”

- Jane Wagner

“ Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. ”

- Jane Wagner

“ Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective. ”

- Josh Lieb

“ Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ”

- Jules de Gaultier

“ Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs. ”

- Lily Tomlin

“ Reality is something you rise above. ”

- Liza Minnelli

“ I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it. ”

- Mary Chase

“ Everything you can imagine is real. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ”

- Philip K. Dick

“ Humankind cannot stand very much reality. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. ”

- Alfred North Whitehead

“ There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters. ”

- Natalie Clifford Barney

“ I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ It takes only one other person to say it's so — one other point of reality to make something real. ”

- Mal Pancoast

“ One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen. ”

- Marvel Bell

“ We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed. ”

- James Baldwin

“ Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be — like the reality of yesterday — an illusion tomorrow. ”

- Luigi Pirandello

“ Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. ”

- Philip K. Dick

“ Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ”

- Thomas Sowell

“ The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is unchangeable or certain. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Truth is reality. ”

- Mary Caroline Richards

“ You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow. ”

- Luigi Pirandello
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