82 Inspirational Reality Quotes

In a world where reality often presents us with challenges and opportunities, finding inspiration in everyday experiences can be profoundly empowering. Whether it's the simple beauty in daily routines or the resilience found in overcoming obstacles, reality holds a mirror to the strength and potential within us all. This blog post brings together a carefully selected array of 82 inspirational quotes that illuminate the power of reality. Each quote is a testament to the endurance of the human spirit and a reminder of the lessons life continually offers. Dive in to find motivation and insights that resonate with your own journey, and let these words inspire a renewed sense of purpose and perspective.

1. “La plus belle des ruses du diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas."("The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.")” - Charles Baudelaire

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

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

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

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. “I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.” - George Orwell

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

8. “We used to do coke, till "Just Say No" put the stuff out of reach. Now it's crank. Meth. The monster. It's a bitch on the body, but damn do you fly.” - Ellen Hopkins

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. “Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.” - Alfred North Whitehead

11. “The imaginary is what tends to become real.” - André Breton

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

13. “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

14. “That’s how I know they are dreams. Because the simple and plain and everyday things are the ones that we can never have. (Cassia Reyes)” - Ally Condie

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

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

17. “Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.” - Niels Bohr

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

19. “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

20. “Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality.” - Toba Beta

21. “Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.” - Oscar Wilde

22. “Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there.” - Paulo Coelho

23. “I REMEMBER WHEN ALL THIS WILL BE AGAIN.” - Terry Pratchett

24. “The average Bhutanese knows much more about the world than the average American...(for Americans)It is more comfortable to watch fake news about celebrities than to know what's happening in China or southern Sudan. But events happening in China or Sudan affect us so much more because they are real.” - Linda Leaming

25. “But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.” - Mary Balogh

26. “Many realities hidden behind wall of perception.” - Toba Beta

27. “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

28. “I encounter one example after another of how relative truth is.” - Raoul Wallenberg

29. “I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?” - Jess C. Scott

30. “They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down.” - Lewis Black

31. “We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.” - Stephen R. Covey

32. “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

33. “To live by worry is to live against reality” - E. Stanley Jones

34. “What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.” - Hermann Hesse

35. “A mind is like a puzzle; you must unlock it to read its hidden secrets.” - Melissa de la Cruz

36. “Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?” - Virginia Woolf

37. “Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.” - Alan Wilson Watts

38. “Compared to bipolar's magic, reality seems a raw deal. It's not just the boredom that makes recovery so difficult, it's the slow dawning pain that comes with sanity - the realization of illnesss, the humiliating scenes, the blown money and friendships and confidence. Depression seems almost inevitable. The pendulum swings back from transcendence in shards, a bloody, dangerous mess. Crazy high is better than crazy low. So we gamble, dump the pills, and stick it to the control freaks and doctors. They don't understand, we say. They just don't get it. They'll never be artists.” - David Lovelace

39. “But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.” - Chris Bohjalian

40. “Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.” - Philip Pullman

41. “In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.” - Julian Barnes

42. “The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.” - Aldous Huxley

43. “Things aren't like this," he kept repeating. "It shouldn't be this way." As if he had access to some other plane of existence, some parallel, "right" universe, and had sensed that our time had somehow been put out of joint. Such was his vehemence that I found myself believing him, believing, for example, in the possibility of that other life in which Vina had never left and we were making our lives together, all three of us, ascending together to the stars. Then he shook his head, and the spell broke. He opened his eyes, grinning ruefully. As if he knew his thoughts had infected mine. As if he knew his power. "Better get on with it," he said. "Make do with what there is.” - Salman Rushdie

44. “Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?” - Jeanette Winterson

45. “Even if you tell yourself "Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot." Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot.Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, "I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong..." you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.” - Chuck Palahniuk

46. “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

47. “You can take a dog outside, but you can't make it pee” - Micah Amyx

48. “If only I could fallsound asleep and wake up in my old reality!” - Haruki Murakami

49. “The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can 'beat it' and there's never enough. At least in my opinion - cause there are people, who complain about style intensity in literature: they prefer cereals with milk than abyssinian bitches roasted alive on bringhausers and watered with ya-yoo juice.” - Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

50. “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

51. “Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.” - John Gardner

52. “Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.” - Terry Pratchett

53. “De werkelijkheid bestaat pas, als je je er iets van aantrekt. Je moet de werkelijkheid de kans niet geven, te bestaan.” - Renate Dorrestein

54. “Beauty begins in the eyes of the beholder; Reality ends in the mind of the observer.” - Joey Lawsin

55. “Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can give you strength no one can defeat” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

56. “Ceea ce numim cultură e în realitate un lung proces de selecție și de cernere.” - Jean-Claude Carrière

57. “there is no understanding between me and this worldthey don't understand me and i don't care them.” - adnan khan

58. “Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.” - Vernor Vinge

59. “The beliefs you hold strongly in your mind will become your dreams and in time become your reality.” - Steven Redhead

60. “Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.” - Idries Shah

61. “What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.” - Franz Kafka

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

63. “Living a horror movie cliché, so to speak?” Caleb softly replied. “I know this is hard to comprehend, especially since we study science and things that are proven or explainable. But, all my life I’ve been on the road to this very place.” He pointed downwards with his index finger for effect. “Many things I’ve personally seen keep leading me to the same conclusion. In reality, the impossible doesn’t exist.” - Davee Jones

64. “Harsh justice is still justice.” - George R.R. Martin

65. “Dream are different than real life but important too.” - Audrey Niffenegger

66. “The revelation that there was nothing "special" about humanity didn't shock her. Not specifically. She'd always been cynical about that sort of thing. The idea that reality was all too big to even quantify in any meaningful way didn't disturb her much either. Except, deep down, she'd assumed there was some inherent logic at work. Like ricocheting molecules congealing into planets and stars, dogs and cats. At least the made sense, even if it wasn't very comforting. At least it put things in neat little boxes with neat little labels that she didn't always understand but could rely on in terms of familiarity.” - A. Lee Martinez

67. “ Some Wishes won't become true But will lead you to the ultimate Truth ” - uzair safi

68. “I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.” - Fernando Pessoa

69. “The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.” - Richard Dawkins

70. “I have a habit of painting reality with my dreams.” - Lionel Suggs

71. “I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.” - Michelle M. Pillow

72. “But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.” - Umair Naeem

73. “ I always see the light at the end of the tunnel before I enter the cave” - Stanley Victor Paskavich

74. “Your tears of sorrow today will bring bliss in the future....” - Ras Obenn

75. “Reality is what you embrace” - Daniel Lee Edstrom

76. “Without stories, we’d have even more trouble recognizing what’s real.” - Amy Neftzger

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

78. “She still craved the fantasy while reality was busy sinking in its sharp teeth.” - Belle Malory

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

80. “Don’t listen to the ramblings of fools,” he said, smiling grimly. “When it comes down to it, if they knew the truth, no one would want to live on this earth forever.” - Melika Dannese Lux

81. “Real education is about revolution.” - Bryant McGill

82. “There's nowhere else to escape to ... Except in a wooden box, that is.” - H.M. Forester