Top 100 Quotes About Reality (2025 Update)

1. “I, a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

— Richard P. Feynman

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2. “The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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3. “Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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4. “For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

— Alan Watts

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5. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

— Philip K. Dick

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6. “There is no unique picture of reality.”

— Stephen Hawking

7. “One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.”

— Salvador Dalí

8. “Once I dreamed I was a butterfly, and now I no longer know whether I am Chuang Tzu, who dreamed I was a butterfly, or whether I am a butterfly dreaming that I am Chuang Tzu.”

— Zhuangzi

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9. “Life is not fair. Get used to it.”

— Bill Gates

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10. “I’m not perfect. But I’ll always be real.”

— Tupac Shakur

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11. “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

— Ayn Rand

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12. “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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13. “Things change; that’s the way it is.”

— Tupac Shakur

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14. “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

— Democritus

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15. “Your thoughts create your reality. Your mind is more powerful than you know.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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16. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

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17. “The world is not a wish-granting factory.”

— John Green

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18. “You are the Universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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19. “Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?”

— J.K. Rowling

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20. “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”

— Alan Watts

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21. “You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”

— Alan Watts

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22. “Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”

— Alan Watts

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23. “The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”

— Neville Goddard

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24. “Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.”

— Alan Watts

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25. “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

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26. “The map is not the territory.”

— Alfred Korzybski

27. “There is an art of seeing things as they are: without naming, without being caught in a network of words, without thinking interfering with perception.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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28. “Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

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29. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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30. “Life is not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”

— Matthew McConaughey

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31. “Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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32. “Nothing is real.”

— John Lennon

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33. “No one was ever injured by the truth; but he who persists in self-deception and ignorance is injured.”

— Marcus Aurelius

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34. “It’s just a ride.”

— Bill Hicks

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35. “If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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36. “The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

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37. “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”

— Carl Sagan

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38. “As you are, so is the world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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39. “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.”

— William Blake

40. “Be careful of your moods and feelings, for there is an unbroken connection between your feelings and your visible world.”

— Neville Goddard

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41. “Past and future are in the mind only – I am now.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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42. “Nothing comes from without. All things come from within.”

— Neville Goddard

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43. “I don't paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”

— Frida Kahlo

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44. “You create your own reality.”

— Jane Roberts

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45. “Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”

— George Carlin

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46. “Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.”

— Epictetus

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47. “I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

— Adam Savage

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48. “Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality.”

— Brian Tracy

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49. “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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50. “When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science.”

— Carl Sagan

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