56 Inspiring Reality Quotes

In a world where reality can often be complex and challenging, finding inspiration in the words of others can provide much-needed clarity and motivation. Whether they come from authors, thinkers, or leaders, reality quotes have the power to shift perspectives, ignite hope, and encourage action. In this collection, we've carefully selected 56 inspiring reality quotes that illuminate truths about life, offering wisdom to embrace the present and courage to face the future. Let these words be a guide, inspiring you to see beauty in the mundane and opportunity amidst obstacles. Dive in and let the inspiration flow into your reality.

1. “I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.” - Chuck Palahniuk

2. “Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal.” - George Orwell

3. “...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....” - Aldous Huxley

4. “Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone.” - Shannon Hale

5. “What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than they thought they were. The world is a slightly different place just because they read a damn book. Imagine that.” - Mark Vonnegut

6. “Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...” - Raymond Chandler

7. “Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.” - Sarah Manguso

8. “Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.” - Haruki Murakami

9. “Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.” - Jack Kerouac

10. “In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).” - Julio Cortazar

11. “It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.” - Clive Barker

12. “The gap in the fire which had opened up before him, so that the twisted grimace on the face of existence had become visible through the play of the flames, narrowed to disappear completely. His back hurt and he could hear darkness breathing audibly.” - Paul Leppin

13. “Truth is not a path you follow, but one created by your footsteps.” - Frederick E. Dodson

14. “The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub.” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

15. “Perception and reality are two different things.” - Tom Cruise

16. “I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter, there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost. They are also made of matter, but totally different in size andlaws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact.” - Toba Beta

17. “Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” - Werner Heisenberg

18. “About dreams. It is usually taken for granted that you dream of something that has made a particularly strong impression on you during the day, but it seems to me it´s just the contrary. Often it´s something you paid no attention to at the time -- a vague thought that you didn´t bother to think out to the end, words spoken without feeling and which passed unnoticed -- these are the things that return at night, clothed in flesh and blood, and they become the subjects of dreams, as if to make up for having been ignored during waking hours.” - Boris Pasternak

19. “[...] I grew up out of that strange, dreamy childhood of mine and went into the world of reality. I met with experiences that bruised my spirit - but they never harmed my ideal world. That was always mine to retreat into at will. I learned that that world and the real world clashed hopelessly and irreconcilably; and I learned to keep them apart so that the former might remain for me unspoiled. I learned to meet other people on their own ground since there seemed to be no meeting place on mine. I learned to hide the thoughts and dreams and fancies that had no place in the strife and clash of the market place. I found that it was useless to look for kindred souls in the multitude; one might stumble on such here and there, but as a rule it seemed to me that the majority of people lived for the things of time and sense alone and could not understand my other life. So I piped and danced to other people's piping - and held fast to my own soul as best I could.” - L.M. Montgomery

20. “As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.” - Neil Gaiman

21. “Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.” - Niels Bohr

22. “Eye can only see something ifidea about it has been in mind.” - Toba Beta

23. “They walked on rather aimlessly. He hoped she wouldn't notice he was touched, because he wouldn't have known how to explain why. Here lay the great discrepancy between aesthetic truth and sleazy reality.” - Patrick White

24. “When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate reality. This is just what I see and hear.” - Don DeLillo

25. “V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.” - Jess C. Scott

26. “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.” - Grant Morrison

27. “I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there''s any chance of it being sewn back together. This is permanent. It can't be fixed.” - Hannah Harrington

28. “When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts...it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.” - L.M. Montgomery

29. “Universal emptiness is mere concept.The fact is, there was never emptiness.” - Toba Beta

30. “They'll take everything, even your tears.” - George Foreman

31. “the problem is, lahat na lang kasi ng pelikula pinipilit gawing pampamilya. one size fits all. kaya tuloy ang material for movies nagiging too mature for kids and too cheesy for adults.” - Bob Ong

32. “But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams.” - Jennifer E. Smith

33. “Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.” - Mike Norton

34. “If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.” - Criss Jami

35. “Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.” - T.L. Rese

36. “Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.” - Werner Erhard

37. “Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.” - Wallace Stevens

38. “As though sensing her heightening alarm, Pinfeathers halted his advance."I can’t help it that I’m susceptible to you," he whispered. "You know that. It’s just that you’re so...unreal...and so I have to touch you. If only to be certain that I’m not the one who’s dreaming. You see, I hear that sort of thing is going around.” - Kelly Creagh

39. “το πιθανό είναι πιο αληθινό απ' την πραγματικότητα” - Κοσμάς Πολίτης

40. “Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.” - Charles Baudelaire

41. “It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?” - Idries Shah

42. “I could enjoy the simple life with a small living quarters, a scratched album of Johnny Cash and a Box of Twinkies” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

43. “Leo had once joked about writing an allegorical sketch where Parody packed its bags, shut up shop and put a sign on the door which read: “Closed. Any inquiries please contact the Real”.” - Patrick McGuinness

44. “Either we face reality or reality faces us” - Nathanael Kanyinga

45. “تأمل جمالية المتسكعون من أنف المنخل ..إن صادفتهم بالطريق حيهم بأطرافك الخمس وأرحل , هناك من يتبسم لك وهو بصدد أن يقتلع من فاهك عبق القرنفل !” - فتون العنزي

46. “Most do not understand what sight is. The mind isn't free. If you don't want to see something, you simply just need to open your eyes.” - Lionel Suggs

47. “It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.” - Terry Pratchett

48. “Well, the old Autumn didn't know anything about reality. The old Autumn was quite happy living in a childish make-believe world where bad things didn't happen and where you could make up whatever silly story you liked and tell yourself it was true.” - Liz Kessler

49. “An odd thing about perception is that when we identify some new thing with one or more of our five senses, it is not really, immutably real -- it is a passing will o’ the wisp, an artifact of the senses and the translations of the brain until we get used to it and we give it a home in our hearts” - Nigel Hey

50. “To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.” - Gregg Braden

51. “...people live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true... that is how they define reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts... their reality may all be an illusion.” - Kishimoto Masashi Uchiha Itachi - chapter 385

52. “Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.” - Abbi Glines

53. “A worldview is a commitment, a fundamental orientation of the heart, that can be expressed as a story or in a set of presuppositions (assumptions which may be true, partially true or entirely false) which we hold (consciously or subconsciously, consistently or inconsistently) about the basic constitution of reality, and that provides the foundations on which we live and more and have our being.” - James W. Sire

54. “We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream” - Cynthia Sue Larson

55. “She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.” - Angela Carter

56. “Reality always wins.” - Elizabeth Grace Saunders