Oscar Wilde Quotes about Reality

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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

Oscar Wilde

Reality, Soul, Terrible

Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

Oscar Wilde

Dream, Depressing, Reality

"The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde".

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.

Oscar Wilde

Art, Night, Reality

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Art, Reality

Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Oscar Wilde

Happiness, Reality, Rope

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.50, First Avenue Editions

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality.

Oscar Wilde

Dream, Reality, People

Oscar Wilde (1997). “Nothing...Except My Genius”, p.30, Penguin UK

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Oscar Wilde

Dream, Reality, Expression

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Oscar Wilde

Reality, Expression, Giving

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.118, Diversion Books

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Oscar Wilde

Life, Death, Reality

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

Oscar Wilde

Heart, Reality, Law

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.

Oscar Wilde

Reality, Trying, May