264 Best Reality Quotes

The gap between dream and reality is itself a paradox. Only in the world of dreams can you have such a fundamental contradiction.

The line between dream and reality is blurring. Soon, there will be no way to tell them apart.

He's trying to become a god by fusing dreams and reality.

Is this a dream, or am I really here?

We have to enter the dream and stop him before the real world is completely consumed.

You were looking for a prince, and you found a scarecrow. – Turnip Head

You are a toy! You aren't the real Buzz Lightyear. You're an action figure! You are a child's plaything! – Woody

You can’t reason with a nuclear bomb. – Jim

Real life is messy. We all have limitations. We all make mistakes.

It's not about how badly you want something. It's about what you are capable of! – Bonnie Hopps

Sometimes, who we wish we were, what we wish we could do, is just not meant to be. – Sina

That doesn't look like Earth. – Captain B. McCrea

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – Winston Smith

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. – O'Brien

Sanity is not statistical.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies...

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.

Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.

If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.

There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible. – Atticus Finch

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.

Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. – Ahab

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Things have a life of their own. It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.

The thing is – fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. – Jack

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe. Science fiction was a big help.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but I wish you to know that you were the inspiration of it.

The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.

The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – Albus Dumbledore

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. – Albus Dumbledore

Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. – Westley

Get used to disappointment. – Westley

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – The Queen of Hearts