Reality

(269 votes)   Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

George Moore
1852-1933, Irish Writer

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

Norman Douglas
1868-1952, British Author

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(128 votes)   Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Gary Zukav

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(123 votes)   All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Peter Mcwilliams
American Author of ''Life 101''

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(120 votes)   Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Robert J. Ringer
American Writer

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(105 votes)   Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(104 votes)   Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Laurence J. Peter

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(98 votes)   Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Bertolt Brecht
1898-1956, German Dramatist, Poet

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(98 votes)   Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Cesare Pavese
1908-1950, Italian Poet, Novelist, Translator

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(97 votes)   Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(93 votes)   There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

Titus Maccius Plautus
BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet

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(92 votes)   No authority is higher than reality.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga
American Businessman, Founder of Blockbuster Videos

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(83 votes)   Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(82 votes)   People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Al Lee

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(74 votes)   The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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