262 Best Reality Quotes

The line between dream and reality is blurring. Soon, there will be no way to tell them apart.
Paprika Reality Dreams Chaos Perception
He's trying to become a god by fusing dreams and reality.
Paprika Power control god complex Reality
Is this a dream, or am I really here?
Paprika Reality Perception Uncertainty
We have to enter the dream and stop him before the real world is completely consumed.
Paprika Action Dreams Reality Salvation
You were looking for a prince, and you found a scarecrow. – Turnip Head
Howl’s Moving Castle Expectation Reality Love identity
You are a toy! You aren't the real Buzz Lightyear. You're an action figure! You are a child's plaything! – Woody
Toy Story identity purpose Reality Friendship
You can’t reason with a nuclear bomb. – Jim
When the Wind Blows futility Powerlessness destruction Reality
Real life is messy. We all have limitations. We all make mistakes.
Zootopia Reality Imperfection Limitations Mistakes
Everyone comes to Zootopia thinking they can be anything they want. Well, you can't. You can only be what you are. – Gideon Grey
Zootopia Prejudice Limitations Reality Cynicism
It's not about how badly you want something. It's about what you are capable of! – Bonnie Hopps
Zootopia Reality Capability Ambition Limitations
Sometimes, who we wish we were, what we wish we could do, is just not meant to be. – Sina
Moana Reality limitation Acceptance
That doesn't look like Earth. – Captain B. McCrea
WALL·E Discovery Reality ignorance Environment
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. – Winston Smith
1984 Freedom Truth Reality Individuality Defiance
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
1984 Reality Truth Power control conformity
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
1984 propaganda control conformity Reality
Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. – O'Brien
1984 Reality Power control subjectivity Truth
Sanity is not statistical.
1984 Individuality Reality conformity Truth sanity
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
1984 Dystopia control Reality Ominous
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
1984 Doublethink Reality control propaganda Psychology
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies...
1984 Doublethink Truth Deception control Reality
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.
1984 Power Truth Reality control conformity
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.
1984 Individuality Truth sanity Defiance Reality
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable—what then?
1984 Reality Power control subjectivity Truth
One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
Brave New World conditioning control Truth Reality indoctrination
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery.
Brave New World Happiness Suffering Reality Illusion Comfort
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
To Kill a Mockingbird Innocence Loss Fatherhood Reality
He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected.
Anna Karenina Desire Happiness Disappointment Reality
Levin had been married three months. He was happy, but not at all in the way he had expected.
Anna Karenina Marriage Happiness Expectation Reality
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.
Les Misérables Idealism Reality Spirit existence
All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. – Ahab
Moby-Dick Reality Perception Obsession Meaning
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
The Picture of Dorian Gray Art Perception Reflection Spectator Reality
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Memory Reality Perception Storytelling
Things have a life of their own. It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
One Hundred Years of Solitude magic realism Reality Perception animism
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.
One Hundred Years of Solitude Reality magic realism Faith confusion
The thing is – fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. – Jack
Lord of the Flies fear Reality Savagery
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
Slaughterhouse-Five Time Memory Reality Perception
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Slaughterhouse-Five identity Reality Morality Pretense
So they were trying to re-invent themselves and their universe. Science fiction was a big help.
Slaughterhouse-Five Escape Reality Trauma Science Fiction
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.
Slaughterhouse-Five Truth Memory Reality authorship
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.
A Tale of Two Cities Love Illusion Reality Devotion
The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
Invisible Man Possibility Perception Reality
The mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived.
Invisible Man order Chaos Reality Idealism
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
Martin Luther King Jr. Truth Love Reality Victory nonviolence
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. – Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Reality Illusion Perception Physics
A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt radicalism pragmatism ideology Reality Criticism
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. – Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter Dreams Reality Life choices
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. – Albus Dumbledore
Harry Potter grief Pain Coping Reality
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something. – Westley
The Princess Bride Life Cynicism Reality hardship
Get used to disappointment. – Westley
The Princess Bride Life Cynicism Reality hardship
Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – The Queen of Hearts
Alice in Wonderland Imagination Reality Belief Perspective
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