Reality Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old reality quotes, reality sayings, and reality proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

I like reality. It tastes of bread. Jean Anouilh
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down. We don't move, today is today, always is today. Octavio Paz
Our freedom is so much greater than we comprehended. We can learn to shift from reality to reality. Lawrence LeShan
The what should be never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is. Lenny Bruce
By itself reality per se isn't worth a damn. It's perception that promotes reality to meaning. Joseph Brodsky
This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction. Muhammad Ali
Reality exists because we agree to it. Whenever reality shifts, the agreement has been changed. Deepak Chopra
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems - but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems more and more incredible. Salman Rushdie
I don't rack my brains worrying about the separation between fiction and reality. Fiction is our reality. Reality is our imagination. Chenjerai Hove
I or we don't exist in reality; rather, that reality exists within us. Tara Vasanti
Reality was empty: without life or warmth or color or sound: without meaning. There were no heights or depths. All this lovely play of form and light and color on the sea and in the eyes of men, was no more than that: a playing of illusions on the shallow void. Ursula K. Le Guin
The world is your exercise-book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, although you can express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write nonsense, or lies, or to tear the pages. Richard Bach
There was no substitute for reality; one should beware of imitations. Arthur C. Clarke
One desires reality. To a home-dweller, reality comes in the comforting familiarity of a neighborhood, the greeting of a friend. A traveler must seek it out, and tell tales to encourage belief in himself, what he has done and seen. Carter Scholz
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. Henri Bergson
I am seeking only to face realities and to face them without soft concealments. Woodrow Wilson
Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality. Clarence Day
Do not let your fancy make you forget realities. Aesop
That is real which never changes. Lao-tse
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