Quotes on “reality”

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist.

Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade...

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

How was I supposed to know what’s real and what’s not? It feels like I’m the only one who doesn’t know the difference.

Don't worry. You're just as sane as I am-Luna Lovegood

You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.