No Reality Quotes

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality?'

I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Any moment that opens us up to the reality that life is good is a parable of the supreme end for which we were made.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

There is no reality, only perception.

The purpose of art is to represent the meaning of things. This represents the true reality, not external aspects.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

It's not easy to trust in a God you can't see. That's why so many want God to prove himself so we can trust him. In reality, God wants us to trust him so he can prove himself.

I've turned down millions of dollars to go on reality TV. It's an absolute no-go.

Knowledge and imagination are the life buoy and the extra lung for breathing outside the walls of a tainted reality.

Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.

The insane do not share the normal prejudice in favor of external reality.

How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality.

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Precision is not reality

I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

If you want to know the reality, you have to become the spirit.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Living Beauty is about creating a new ideal, a new reality, and a new aspiration for yourself. It's a guide filled with knowledge, secrets, and solutions to make you look and feel great

...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose depths neither can ever hope to fathom.

there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

Science teaches you to open your eyes and appreciate the reality around you. Religion teaches you to close your eyes and cling to the fantasy within you.

The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions.

Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence.

A single fantasy can transform a million realities.

Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.

If we do not know what the sorrow of penitence is, we have been living only on the surface of life--unmindful of its deep realities, unconscious of its grander glories.

The truth about our own modest contribution might immobilize us: much easier then, to tell ourselves a story about how much we make our own reality.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

Sometimes I think Texas exists as a reality check for those who might wander too far toward the precious.

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates.

No matter how many possibilities turn into reality, an infinite number remain.

When God says no, we are sometimes tempted to wonder if He loves us. In reality, it’s because He loves us, He sometimes says no.

I might hatch an idea in my comfort zone, but to bring it to reality requires bravery.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

When I'm back at home it's just reality. I kind of separate myself from Hollywood.