All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
Walter Bagehot

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.
Lauryn Hill

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn Hill

The connection which formerly existed between the Government and banks was in reality injurious to both, as well as to the general interests of the community at large.
Martin Van Buren

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.
Simone Weil

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil

Bottom up thinkers try to start from experience and move from experience to understanding. They don't start with certain general principles they think beforehand are likely to be true; they just hope to find out what reality is like.
John Polkinghorne

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.
John Polkinghorne

Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.
John Polkinghorne

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.
Morgan Freeman

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis

For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
Natalie Wood

We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people.
Pope Benedict XVI

You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
Stanislaw Lec

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Gustave Flaubert

Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell

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

A theory must be tempered with reality.
Jawaharlal Nehru

In reality, we are all travelers - even explorers of mortality.
Thomas S. Monson