quotations about reality
At the end of the day, reality is what's left when all enhanced realities are put away. It used to be easier to tell the difference--art, film, music, playstations--all of these enhanced realities were limited in their means and scope such that they could distract from, inform, communicate with, but not substitute for reality. Now technology has advanced and has become so integral to our personal and social lives that the line between enhanced reality and reality reality is blurred. Devices have become real extensions of our physical body in the virtual reality we've created for ourselves.
AMANDA KNOX
"Amanda's View: Reality is Better", Ballard News Tribune
By changing your mind, you change everything.
PATANJALI
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Reality is a formless lure,
And only when we know this
Do we dare to be unreal.
MAXWELL BODENHEIM
"Dialogue Between a Past and Present Poet"
Absolute reality is and always will be unknowable to us.
LEENA KROHN
"Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn", The New Yorker, January 13, 2016
There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Absalom, Absalom!
The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
KEN KESEY
Sometimes a Great Notion
What is reality? Is it not merely a term for the philosopher to conjure with, behind which he may craftily conceal his ignorance?
JOHN GRIER HIBBEN
The Problems of Philosophy
The most exciting thing for me is crossing that bridge between something we know is real and something that is extraordinary. The thing for me has always been how you cross that bridge.
J. J. ABRAMS
interview, The Fresno Bee, December 16, 2015
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Angel's Game
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
DEAN KOONTZ
Odd Apocalypse
Really, nobody knows whether the world is realistic or fantastic, that is to say, whether the world is a natural process or whether it is a kind of dream, a dream that we may or may not share with others.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
The Paris Review, winter-spring 1967
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
PHILIP K. DICK
Valis
The world could only be known as it existed in men's hearts. For while it seemed a place which contained men it was in reality a place contained within them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
The Crossing
We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.
ANAÏS NIN
The Novel of the Future
The angel of reality is unknowable, a figure only partially apprehended, then transformed into something else in continuous movement--here and then gone.
DAVID MICHAEL HERTZ
Angels of Reality
The only reality was nothingness, and over it a hypocrisy of words.
D. H. LAWRENCE
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
MICHELLE HODKIN
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Human kind cannot bear very much reality.
T. S. ELIOT
Murder in the Cathedral
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
RALPH MARSTON
Daily Motivator
Reality is subject to the mind's creation.
DIANE STEIN
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