I like reality. It tastes like bread.
Jean Anouilh

The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Salman Rushdie

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Baruch Spinoza

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

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.
Jim Harrison

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.
Hermann Hesse

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse

Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna

Perhaps September 11 could be called the first historic world event in the strictest sense: the impact, the explosion, the slow collapse - a gruesome reality literally took place in front of a global public.
Jurgen Habermas

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Eric Cantona

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
Umberto Eco

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles

There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
Meir Kahane

This is what I am. I have periods of enormous self-destructive depression, where I go completely off my trolley and lose all sight of reality and reason.
Siobhan Fahey

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
Chinua Achebe

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
Karl Popper

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.
Iris Murdoch