reality Quotes

“He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

topic:fear reality

“People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's...”

― Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

topic:reality

“it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”

― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

topic:truth reality

“Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic ; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world...”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

topic:reality consciousness

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression . . . that gives reality to things.”

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

topic:reality talking

“If you can't have the reality, a dream is just as good.”

― Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles

topic:reality dream

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

topic:reality words

“The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:life reality dream

“If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.”

― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

topic:reality

“I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:reality work

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