All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
-Marcel Proust
"Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain"
Quotations
Reality
We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.
-Paulo Coelho
What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
-Louise Nevelson
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-Albert Einstein
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
-Ayn Rand
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
-Anaïs Nin
Everything you can imagine is real.
-Pablo Picasso
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
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
-Garrison Keillor
There is a fine line between dreams and reality; it's up to you to draw it.
-B. Quilliam
