Reality Quotes

We read Dover Books, because you can steal from them. The medieval imagery and iconography is so good for the imagination. Trying to describe the world, trying to describe the cosmos, trying to put it down in neat orderly fashion, unlike reality. And it always seems to stick in one's mind more than reality does.

Here we go round the prickly pear
Prickly pear prickly pear.
Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow.

Human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality

It hasn’t been some kind of fairy tale for me. All of my success has been born of failure. Your childhood dreams are always tales of glory; reality is a lot messier and more dramatic

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

He created his own Kool-Aid reality and was able to illuminate himself by it.

Well, the funny thing is that "reality" seems to require the suspension of disbelief as much as fiction does.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

The main effort, for now many years, has been a critical effort; the endeavours, in all branches of knowledge—theology, philosophy, history, art, science—to see the object as in itself it really is.

Today is the day that an abstract debate about spreadsheets and numbers turns into stark reality for people's jobs and services.

In documentary we deal with the actual, and in one sense with the real. But the really real, if I may use that phrase, is something deeper than that. The only reality which counts in the end is the interpretation which is profound.

Reality changes; in order to represent it, modes of representation must change.

I think that, like in my writing, reality is always a soap bubble, Silly Putty thing anyway.

Reality is a cliche / from which we escape by metaphor.

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.