What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?
— Susannah Cahalan
Meanwhile, back at reality..."- G.Lucas
— Robert Lynn Asprin
I wonder what it was really like back then. We think it's all fun and flirting, but there was probably a lot of ugly reality.""Like the dancing. — Mary Jane Hathaway
I had no heart nor art to drag him back to the reeking reality of our life and times.
— Maya Angelou
Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The harsh reality will be the fear that has always been at the back of your mind coming to play right in front of your eyes
— Tshepang Sharon Koji
One win, and you're on top of the world. Lose in the first round of the next tournament: you're back to reality.
— Sania Mirza
No-one has held back. They have put some definition around the numbers and now we have to wait for the reality.
— Joseph Stanislaw
Katniss, got that spile? Finnick asks, snapping me back to reality.
— Suzanne Collins
If I can only be my true self in the virtual world ... then what was the point of coming back to reality after all?
— Reki Kawahara
When we fight back with joy, we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, delightful children of God.
— Margaret Feinberg
I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.
— Vanessa Carlton
Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.
— Robert J. Shiller
Dismantle your friend to see how he behaves. If he smiles with a beautiful grin, then take him back, he's worthy to be called a friend.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Reality is an aspect of property. It must be seized. And investigative journalism is the noble art of seizing reality back from the powerful. — Julian Assange
Well then, music take me on that wonderful journey of my lost memories, and never take me back to reality. — Seth Hawkins
Clarity and focus doesn't always come from God or inspirational quotes. Usually, it takes your mother to slap the reality back into you. — Shannon L. Alder
Life is a dream of roses and the thorns prick us back to reality — Daljit Ranajee
all around an illusive reality promises dreams, just as it deviously robs us of moments to give us back only memories! — Marianthi Devaki
The possibility of making an error and coming back to try again is real when you have not fully prepared. — Israelmore Ayivor
Because the world all twisted up and wrong, like distorted glass, only came back into focus if you looked at it through the bottom of a bottle. — Terry Pratchett
It is morally acceptable in life for one to make mistakes; it only enables you to go back to your drawing board and review your steps". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa
In order to put meaning back into our lives, we should recognize illusions for what they are, and we should reach out and touch the fabric of reality. — Walker Evans
I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality. — Justin Smiley
Remember, this was back in the '90s, before the only way to be a cool teenager was to have a baby or a reality show (or both). — Mindy Kaling
In China, any idea that dared to take flight would only crash back to the ground. The gravity of reality is too strong. — Liu Cixin
Work to live up to your dreams and fantasies; to hell with them who ask you to come back to reality. — Vikrmn
Timing is always off. Someone is always late, always lost, always looking back to the start of a reality that they didn't want to begin with. — Leigh Hershkovich
The question is, when does the therapeutic community end and the reality kick back in Then, what do you do with them — James Johnson
People have learned to escape Reality very well but too often lose their way back. — Eugene J. Martin
The hard reality is that the omelette has been made and you cannot get your egg back. — K.P. Fabian
I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to. — Shane Warren Jones
Being a true friend is giving of the one thing you can NOT get back; Time — Angel Dust
My mind was getting away from reality again, and I reluctantly drew it back in. There is no getting away from reality. — David Levithan
Can we take a direct flight back to reality or do we have to change planes in Denver? — Tim Allen
People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps. — Victor Hugo
Reality is a gravitational pull, yanking us back down to earth when we least expect it. — Cassia Leo
I never miss reality when I'm not in it, but it's sometimes nice to come back to. — Ashleigh Brilliant
Assholes are like weeds, a bitch to get rid of and when you do another one grows back in its place. — Jonathan Kellerman
The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy. — Greg Giraldo
The cruel ambush of 9/11 supposedly 'changed everything,' slapping us back to reality. Yet we are constantly shocked, shocked by the foreseeable. — Frank Rich
In reality, Afghanistan has functioned as a nation-state for more than two centuries, and its army and bureaucracy reach back to the 19th century. — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you. — Amit Ray
I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing ... getting back to reality. — Adam Ant
Never turn your back on government. — Gerald Montgomery
Reality has its own power - you can turn your back on it, but it will find you in the end, and your inability to cope with it will be your ruin. — 50 Cent
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America held back by mass ignorance and mass illiteracy. — Timothy Noah
Rhiannon's Law #37: Don't get so high and mighty, God will only reward that arrogance with a huge bitch slap back to reality. — J.A. Saare
The reality is this city will not be the same for a while, ... We're not saying bring New Orleans back today. — Ray Nagin
back, to feel the reality of his — Ayn Rand
Maybe she should return to her unit, forget this place and the guys and get back to reality. — Elaine Levine
The worst reality a humanitarian faces is when a caged animal runs back into its cage, after being released from its prison. — Alejandro C. Estrada
Reality denied comes back to haunt. — Philip K. Dick
Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imaginationexcept that it was all reality. — Gary Paulsen
Its not healthy to miss something that's never coming back. All you end up doing is hating your reality. — Melissa Perea
I never thought I would run for Congress. If you look back at a certain reality TV show, you know that. — Sean Duffy
Reality Sucks, I want my dreams back. — Sandra Chami Kassis
Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in. — Stephen Schwartz
As I was sitting in my chair,I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that. — Hughes Mearns
There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. — Sarah Ockler
For there is a way back from imagination to reality and that is - art. — Sigmund Freud
Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. — Robert Breault
All those practice fights when it was just us, two children pretending to be soldiers. Or two soldiers pretending to be children. — Sara Raasch
Not to be rich, but to have money; to have money like a wall to put your back to, and then face the world. — Mario Puzo
There's only so long you can live in a fantasy world before the reality comes along to sharply put you back in your place. — Giovanna Fletcher
After the stretch of weather we've had, this is going to be a culture shock for some people. We always end up crashing back to reality. — Paul Gross
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do. — Maurice Sendak
