Reality is that part of the imagination we all agree on.

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

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?
M.C. Escher

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

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
Philip K. Dick

All the mind’s activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
Marcel Proust

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.
Samuel Johnson

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
Katharine Brush

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.
David G. Myers

Reality is for those who lack imagination.

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

How do we know that the sky is not green and we are all colour-blind?

There are no facts, only interpretations.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn’t everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

I am a thread too slender
To suspend all this reality…
Phillip Pulfrey

What is reality anyway! It’s nothing but a collective hunch.
Jane Wagner

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.
Lewis Mumford

Objectivity has about as much substance as the emperor’s new clothes.
Connie Miller

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
T.S. Eliot

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Gertrude Jekyll, like Monet, was a painter with poor eyesight, and their gardens – his at Giverny in the Seine valley, hers in Surrey – had resemblances that may have sprung from this condition. Both loved plants that foamed and frothed over walls and pergolas, spread in tides beneath trees; both saw flowers in islands of colored light – an image the normal eye captures only by squinting.
Eleanor Perenyi

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
Louise Nevelson

Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
Democritus

Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us.
Alan Hale

Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reality bites… and doesn’t let go.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another.
John Burroughs

Reality is determined not by what scientists or anyone else says or believes but by what the evidence reveals to us.
lan Hale

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe

Art must take reality by surprise.
F. Sagan

Reality is not always probable, or likely.
Jorge Luis Borges

Reality is the #1 cause of insanity among those who are in contact with it.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Arthur Baldwin

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
John Steinbeck

Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than both sides.
Frank Tyger

It must be hard to be a model, because you’d want to be like the photograph of you, and you can’t ever look that way.
Andy Warhol

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you’re just a reflection of him?
Calvin and Hobbes

What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas H. Everett

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.
Edward Abbey

Reality is too much to take in heapfuls, but sprinkle it sparingly upon life’s path and most can tread it lightly.
Astrid Alauda

The formula “two and two make five” is not without its attractions.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott

How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
Norman Douglas

Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their “agreement,” as falsity means their disagreement, with “reality.”
William James

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C.S. Lewis

May the dreams of your past be the reality of your future.

It’s weird. I mean, he’s a dream, a fantasy, and, if he becomes real, it’s like he’s not mine anymore.
The Quotesjunction.com

There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it’s up to you to draw it.
B. Quilliam

Okay, who put a “stop payment” on my reality check?

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Francis Bacon