34 Reality Check Quotes

In today’s fast-paced world, where social media often blurs the lines between reality and fantasy, a dose of raw truth can be grounding. Reality check quotes offer that much-needed perspective, reminding us to stay grounded, embrace authenticity, and face life with honesty. They cut through the noise, delivering powerful insights that can shift our mindset and refocus our energy. In this blog post, we’ve curated a remarkable collection of 34 reality check quotes that capture the essence of life’s truths. Allow these quotes to inspire you, challenge you, and ultimately, help you navigate the complexities of your own unique journey.

1. “Sometimes fiction is more easily understood than true events. Reality is often pathetic.” - Young-ha Kim

2. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” - Soren Kierkegaard

3. “One person's craziness is another person's reality.” - Tim Burton

4. “Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.” - Marcus Aurelius

5. “You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died.(In "The Nautical Chart" by Arturo Perez-Reverte)” - Justin Scott

6. “The more my dream are fulfilled the quicklier they become realities losing their shine.” - Ai Yazawa

7. “for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most insane, can one day materialize and see its fulfillment in space and time.” - Stefan Grabinski

8. “In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.” - Aleister Crowley

9. “To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.” - Laurence Gonzales

10. “In reality the universe has no geometry.” - Kedar Joshi

11. “I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.” - Alan Moore

12. “Real things in the darkness seem no realer than dreams.” - Murasaki Shikibu

13. “The whole of world history often seems to me nothing more than a picture book which portrays humanity's most powerful and a senseless desire - the desire to forget. Does not each generation, by means of suppression, concealment, and ridicule, efface what the previous generation considered most important?” - Hermann Hesse

14. “But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.” - Tom Robbins

15. “Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.” - Anne Carson

16. “It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.” - Jean Genet

17. “We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few centuries—is that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are seeing less than 1/10 Billionth of the information that's riding on there. So we call that visible light. But everything else passing through our bodies is completely invisible to us.Even though we accept the reality that's presented to us, we're really only seeing a little window of what's happening.” - David Eagleman

18. “The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.” - Wilkie Collins

19. “Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?” - Jesse Ball

20. “And it's a disquieting thought that not even the past is done with, even that continues to change, as if in reality there is only one time, for everything, one time for every purpose under heaven. One single second, one single landscape, in which what happens activates and deactivates what has already happened in endless chain reactions, like the processes that take place in the brain, perhaps, where cells suddenly bloom and die away, all according to the way the winds of consciousness are blowing.” - Karl Ove Knausgård

21. “Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.” - Tahir Shah

22. “Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!” - Henry James

23. “The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?Matter, that thing the most solid and the well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world?” - Jeanette Winterson

24. “Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.” - Chet Raymo

25. “I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.” - Orhan Pamuk

26. “Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.” - Henning Mankell

27. “The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?” - Vernor Vinge

28. “Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as you never try to make them a reality.” - Jane Green

29. “Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them upto greet with a bucketful of reality” - Munia Khan

30. “It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should.” - Alain De Botton

31. “It was like when we were little kids and we played games on the ivy-covered hillside in the backyard. We were warriors and wizards and angels and high elves and that was our reality. If someone said, Isn’t it cute, look at them playing, we would have smiled back, humoring them, but it wasn’t playing. It was transformation. It was our own world. Our own rules.” - Francesca Lia Block

32. “No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.” - Alessandra Torre

33. “It was bewildering, the way that reality could be overtaken, wrestled down, and murdered by the sheer weight of possibility.” - Jennifer Dubois

34. “The magic that turns dreams into reality is YOU! When you are inspired by a dream, create a good plan; that turns it into a goal. Then, live your life in a way that will bring that dream, that goal, to life. The magic is you.” - Steve Maraboli