Reality Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old reality quotes, reality sayings, and reality proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

What goes around, comes around. unknown
What goes up must come down. unknown
What is true by lamplight is not always true in sunlight. French (on appearance and reality)
What you see is what you get. unknown
What's done is done. Early 14th Century French Proverb
When the music changes, so does the dance. Hausa tribe of West Africa (on appropriateness)
Wherever you go, you can't get rid of yourself. Polish (on basic truths)
Worrying never changed anything. unknown
You can't beat a dead horse. Richard Trench
You can't build a relationship with a hammer. unknown
May you experience your current dreams as your future reality. Nancy Ganz
Your life realities are the result of your inner concepts. Dana Pedro
Whatever meaning you give to life... that is your reality. A. Danielle Dagba
You cannot see something unless it is in you. Sight is projection of oneself into that which is perceived. Only the eye of wisdom is able to perceive the reality of all things. Simon Sakpo
Understanding can become our reality once we practice it. Simon Sakpo
They despise the truth because it makes them sick to see their reflection. Roberto D. Styles
If you concentrate on the goal as if you had already achieved it, your doors will open and the means will take care of themselves. Your choice is immutable law and with it you shape your own reality. Vadim Zeland
Under, and back of, the universe of time, space and change, is ever to be found the Substantial Reality - the Fundamental Truth... That which is the Fundamental Truth - the Substantial Reality - is beyond true naming, but the wise men call it The All. Hermes Trismegistus
Those who understand reality do not see any difference between birth and death and nirvana and ordinary and holy. Objects and knowledge are not two: inner truth and phenomenon are fused. Real and conventional are viewed as equal; defilement and purity are one Suchness. Gunabhadra Tripitaka
The true principle is that even reality is not really real, and even falsehood is not unreal. Baizhang Huaihai
No reality is to be found other than in our hearts and minds. Nichiren
To the degree that I believe in the reality of "the other" am I removed from my own reality. Mirza Ghalib
Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality? George A. Moore
The spirit is life; the mind is the builder; the physical is the result. Edgar Cayce
There is no reality except the one contained within us. Herman Hesse
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein
When the unreality of life strikes my heart, its reality is revealed to me. Hazrat Khan
All our interior world is reality - and that perhaps more so than our apparent world. Marc Chagall
The question is not whether to adjust or to rebel against reality but, rather, how to discriminate between those realities that must be recognized as unalterable and those that we should continue to try to change however unyielding that may appear. Helen Merrell Lynd
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable. Louise Nevelson