How reluctantly the mind consents to reality!
-Norman Douglas
Quotations
Reality
All the mind's activity is easy if it is not subjected to reality.
-Marcel Proust
"Remembrance of Things Past: Cities of the Plain"
Question reality, especially if it contradicts the evidence of your hopes and dreams.
-Robert Brault
Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.
-Jules Verne
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-Philip K. Dick
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
-Socrates
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
My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.
-Daniel R. Lynch
If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
-Robert Brault
