Quotes about Reality
What a bummer it is to be a human being.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."
— Bill Bailey
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.
— Audrey Hepburn
The materialist thinks me a slave because I am not allowed to believe in determinism. I think the materialist a slave because he is not allowed to believe in fairies.
— GK Chesterton
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
— Mark Twain
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what is and what should be, the conflict in duality.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Nothing too long imagined can be perfect in a wordly way.
— Anais Nin
My imagination creates my reality.
— Walt Disney
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
— Madeleine L'Engle