80 Honest Reality Quotes and Sayings About Life
Sometimes, it is good to consider how things really are, so we have put together a list of the best reality quotes to help you reflect.
And if you’re looking for short reality sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” — Philip K. Dick
“Reality is not made of stuff, but of experiences.” — Amit Goswami
“The reality of life is that your perceptions—right or wrong—influence everything else you do.” — Roger Birkman
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” — Albert Einstein
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” — Oscar Wilde
“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” — Gloria Steinem
“Reality is not always probable, or likely.” — Jorge Luis Borges
“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” — Dolly Parton
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin
“Reality is something you rise above.” — Liza Minnelli
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” — Bertrand Russell
“Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe.” — David Bohm
“The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.” — Osho
“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion.” — Harlan Ellison
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” — Joseph Campbell
“Reality is frequently inaccurate.” — Douglas Adams
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” — Albert Einstein
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” — Iris Murdoch
“Reality is a sliding door.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you.” — Kahlil Gibran
“I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.” — Igor Stravinsky
“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.” — Salman Rushdie
“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind’s eye.” — Shana Alexander
“What is real? How do you define real?” — Morpheus (The Matrix)
“Reality is that which refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.” — Philip K. Dick
“The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” — Albert Einstein
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” — Aristotle
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” — Socrates
“Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.” — Wallace Stevens
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust
“Reality is a crutch for people who can’t cope with drugs.” — Robin Williams
“The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” — Bertrand Russell
“Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.” — Lily Tomlin
“The real world is where the monsters are.” — Rick Riordan
“Reality is always controlled by the people who are most insane.” — Alec Baldwin
“The closer you get to the meaning, the sooner you know there’s no meaning.” — David Bowie
“Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.” — Patty Duke
“Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.” — Lily Tomlin
“The real world is not a place, it’s an excuse.” — Michel Foucault
“Reality is just a point of view.” — Philip K. Dick
“The acceptance of reality is the only sane response to an insane world.” — Marty Rubin
“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.” — Sammy Davis Jr.
“The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.” — Amir Butler
“Reality is what you can get away with.” — Robert Anton Wilson
“The paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling.” — Søren Kierkegaard
“Reality is built out of thought fragments.” — Mason Cooley
“The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.” — Ayn Rand
“Reality is a projection of your thoughts or the things you habitually think about.” — Stephen Richards
“The map is not the territory.” — Alfred Korzybski
“Reality is a storm, so give me the strength to face it.” — Brennan Manning
“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.” — Lao Tzu
“Reality is that portion of the unknown which we mistake for the known.” — Mason Cooley
“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way.'” — Grace Hopper
“Reality is what kicks back when you kick it.” — N. Katherine Hayles
“The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The great ones recover from them.” — Ben Horowitz
“Reality is merely the consensus of a dominant species.” — Terence McKenna
“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” — B.F. Skinner
“Reality is whatever refuses to go away when you’re not thinking about it.” — Philip K. Dick
“The boundaries between physics and metaphysics are like the boundaries between sanity and insanity—all made up.” — Fritjof Capra
“Reality is nothing more than a consistent set of lies.” — Marty Rubin
“The reality is that people reach middle age having spent their whole lives as someone else’s child or someone else’s parent.” — Marianne Williamson
“Reality is not the thing you perceive. It is the thing from which you perceive.” — Alan Watts
“The difference between reality and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.” — Tom Clancy
“Reality is the interval between one thought and the next.” — Deepak Chopra
“The only way to deal with reality is to become larger than it.” — John C. Lilly
“Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it.” — Unknown
“The reality of life is not the way it’s supposed to be, but the way it is.” — Virginia Satir
“Reality is a sliding scale, and the further you slide, the more distorted it becomes.” — Hunter S. Thompson
“The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.” — Remy de Gourmont
“Reality is a canvas upon which we paint our dreams.” — Maya Angelou
“The reality of the moment is rarely the reality of the day.” — Tony Robbins
“Reality is the ultimate truth, whether we choose to accept it or not.” — Eckhart Tolle
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” — Albert Einstein
“The reality is that we’re all imperfect human beings living in an imperfect world.” — Brené Brown
“Reality is what happens when you run out of beer.” — Terry Pratchett
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” — Oscar Wilde
