64 Inspiring Reality Quotes

In a world that constantly shifts and changes, reality can often feel elusive, leaving us searching for meaning and inspiration. It's in these moments of uncertainty and reflection that the wisdom of others can shine a guiding light. Our curated collection of 64 inspiring reality quotes is designed to do just that, offering insights that awaken your inner strength and provide clarity amid the chaos of daily life. These selected quotes serve as reminders of the beauty, complexity, and truth woven into the very fabric of existence. Whether you seek solace, motivation, or a new perspective, this collection is here to inspire and uplift, encouraging a deeper connection with the realities we both create and encounter.

1. “Doffing the ego'ssafe glory, he findshis naked reality.” - Dag Hammarskjöld

2. “I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatrical performances.” - W.S. Gilbert

3. “It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.” - Rick Riordan

4. “The real world is where the monsters are.” - Rick Riordan

5. “Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.” - Brad Pitt

6. “If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

7. “The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” - Jacobus Johannes Leeuw

8. “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

9. “We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)” - Thomas Merton

10. “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

11. “The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you. In books the heroes can make as many mistakes as they like. It doesn't matter what they do, because everything works out in the end. They'll beat the bad guys and put things right and everything ends up cool.In real life, vacuum cleaners kill spiders. If you cross a busy road without looking, you get whacked by a car. If you fall from a tree, you break some bones. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins. I just wanted to make that clear before I begun.” - Darren Shan

12. “Good morning, Hell-A. In the land of the lotus-eaters, time plays tricks on you. One day you’re dreaming, the next, your dream has become your reality. It was the best of times. If only someone had told me. Mistakes were made, hearts were broken, harsh lessons learned. My family goes on without me, while I drown in a sea of pointless pussy. I don’t know how I got here. But here I am, rotting away in the warm California sun. There are things I need to figure out, for her sake, at least. The clock is ticking. The gap is widening. She won’t always love me “no matter what” - Hank Moody

13. “Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.” - André Breton

14. “All that looks like reality to us is dependent on God. There is creation and Creator, nothing more. And creation gets all its meaning and purpose from God.” - John Piper

15. “My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.” - Jess C. Scott

16. “Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the great reality.” - Bede Griffiths

17. “I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.” - Diane Setterfield

18. “Its like reproaching someone who has no ear for music because he's bored at a symphony concert. Is it fair to blame me because you ascribed to me qualities that I hadn't got? I never tried to deceive you by pretending I was anything I wasn't. I was just pretty and gay. You don't ask for a pearl necklace or a sable coat at a booth in a fair; you ask for a tin trumpet and a toy balloon.” - W. Somerset Maugham

19. “What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.” - Michael Connelly

20. “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.” - Jess C. Scott

21. “It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.” - Frank Kermode

22. “Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.” - Oscar Wilde

23. “No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don’t you think? The young are eternally desperate,” he said frankly. “And books, they offer hope — that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe one is saved.” - Anne Rice

24. “I learned a long, long time ago, that I could accomplish things in this place we call reality and yet still spend most of my time in the better reality of my mind.” - Kevin Walker

25. “In order to be a teacher you've got to be a student first” - Gary L. Francione

26. “The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.” - Hendrik Hertzberg

27. “But I still feel like I lost.We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It's easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in the sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet. probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you'll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there's still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it always happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of those lovable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. You will remember having conversations with this person that never actually happened. You will recall sexual trysts with this person that never technically occurred. This is because the individual who embodies your personal definition of love does not really exist. The person is real, and the feelings are real-but you create the context. And context is everything. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they're often just the person you happen to meet first time you really, really want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else.” - Chuck Klosterman

28. “Beliefs create reality” - Melody Beattie

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

30. “We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.” - Chuck Palahniuk

31. “Action is what makes hope a reality.” - Timothy M. Brenner

32. “Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” - Philip K. Dick

33. “It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.” - Elizabeth Berg

34. “I leaned against my door, struggling to catch my breath, and thought that maybe hell wasn't a place at all, but a thing. A contagious thing. A thing that could creep up the steps, seep through the crack under my door, grow horns and sprout fire - smelling faintly like sulfur. A thing that could sink its tendrils inside and take root, coloring everything gray and distorting a smile into a sneer. And while i got dressed for the play, swatted at my back and kept running my hands over my stomach because I could feel it, I swear, I could feel it reaching for me, trying to grab hold.” - Megan Miranda

35. “At Garvin High we were dealt a hard dose of reality this year. People hate. That's our reality. People hate and are hated and carry grudges and want punishments ... I don't know if it's possible to take hate away from people. Not even people like us, who've seen firsthand what hate can do. We're all hurting. We're all going to be hurting for a long time. And we, probably more than anyone else out there, will be searching for a new reality every day. A better one ... But in order to change reality you have to be willing to listen and to learn. And to hear. To actually hear.” - Jennifer Brown

36. “kung alam ko lang na pwersado rin akong magtatrabaho nang ganito, nagsikap na lang sana ako sa eskwelahan nung bata ako. parehas lang naman palang nakakapagod. at least pag nakapag-aral ka, may pag-asa ka pang magkaroon ng magandang kinabukasan at makatulong sa iba.” - Bob Ong

37. “Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.” - Mike Norton

38. “Belief is otiose; reality is sufficiently awesome as it stands.” - Martin Amis

39. “Notice, when looking at quotes of each person - you'll never agree with every single quote of anybody's. We all have a different view of reality, of what is meaningful. This is why we can never argue, or there would be no man left alive - we have to agree to disagree, and just get on with it maybe laugh a little too. It's wonderful really - delightful - the infinte variety of wisdom and beauty! Let's accept it gladly” - jay woodman

40. “Am I sure? Only as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, can ever be the whole truth.” - Arthur Schnitzler

41. “What a tragic realm this is, he reflected. Those down here are prisoners, and the ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it; they think they are free because they have never been free, and do not understand what it means.” - Philip K. Dick

42. “I think it simply comes down to fantasy being the language I speak. While I cannot get into epic sword and sorcery, I see the world as having the potential to be slightly off-kilter. I have run into people who do not quite seem human – though of course they are – and have been privy to coincidences that almost make me believe in magic. Fantasy is sometimes just asking yourself, “Well, what if you are wrong? What if the world doesn’t work the way you think? What would that mean?” - Thomm Quackenbush

43. “La gente que pretendía que las cosas volvieran a ser como antes solía ser tremendamente ingenua.” - John Katzenbach

44. “It's so egotistical to believe that we know more about someone else's reality than they do, and such a waste of time.” - Shreve Stockton

45. “Life can be hard in the real world.” - Jenny B. Jones

46. “I shook my head, folding my arms around my waist. He was wrong; he was the one offering fairy dust, Peter Pan offering to carry me off to the Neverland of soulfinders and happily ever after. But he was too late. Last night i had to grew up and I now knew that such dreams did not exist; real life was more like living with Captain Hook's mercenary pirates than playing happy families in a treehouse” - Joss Stirling

47. “Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.” - Judith Guest

48. “We don't see things how they are, we see things the way we are.” - Anais Nin

49. “All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.” - David Mitchell

50. “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

51. “Walang pakialam ang tao sa katotohanan, sa tsismis lang sila interesado.” - Bob Ong

52. “Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.” - Jerome K. Jerome

53. “If you accept life dully, you can go through it moving not among things but among words.” - William Golding

54. “Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume")” - Chris Bell

55. “His imagination was always more real than the reality of daily life.” - Dan Simmons

56. “Let stuff simply unfold, for once in your life, without spinning all those hopeful romantic fantasies. The less time you spend dreaming up a world of happily ever after, the more time you’ll have to actually live — no evers or afters required.” - Abby McDonald

57. “Thou are my only reality-- all other people are but shadows to me: all events and actions, in which thou dost not mingle, are but dreams.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

58. “Más realidades hay en la experiencia que en la mejor de las teorías.” - Fernando Araya

59. “God made the world like a knife. We have the choice to take it by the handle or the blade.” - C.J. Langenhoven

60. “To hear never-heard sounds, To see never-seen colors and shapes, To try to understand the imperceptible Power pervading the world; To fly and find pure ethereal substances That are not of matter But of that invisible soul pervading reality. To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul; To be a lantern in the darkness Or an umbrella in a stormy day; To feel much more than know. To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain; To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon; To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves; To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching. To be a smile on the face of a woman And shine in her memory As a moment saved without planning.” - Dejan Stojanovic

61. “Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back.” - Sandra Chami Kassis

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

63. “It's amusing to me that we refer to people who live in their heads as detached, disturbed, or mad, when reality for anyone is actually a matter of the individual's state of mind. The mad truth—all people live in their heads. Whatever you think life is, it is.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

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