Motivational Quotes

Reality

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

- Bramah, Ernest

Best Quotes about Reality

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

Mcwilliams, Peter

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Jane Wagner

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

You bluffed me! I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.

Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.

Hob Broun

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Reality isn't the way you wish things to be, nor the way they appear to be, but the way they actually are.

Ringer, Robert J.

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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

Wilde, Oscar

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Important days don't look like anything special when they start. Invariably, the sun rises and people wake up. Coffee is swilled and eggs are swallowed. Everybody goes about the business of acting like their lives matter and then, no matter how important the events of the day end up being, the sun invariably sets. The sun rose before the soldiers stormed Omaha Beach on D-Day, and the sun set after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed. Sunrises and sunsets are real jerks about putting things in perspective.

Josh Lieb

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

Camus, Albert

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

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It has sometimes been said that we find nowhere in nature an analogue of the difference between happens and is, on the one hand, and ought, on the other hand.

Kohler, Wolfgang

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The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

Stevens, Wallace

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True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.

Cocteau, Jean

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One might speak to great length of the three corners of reality what was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.

Bell, Marvel

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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.

Henry Kissinger

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Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?

Weil, Simone

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People see the world not as it is, but as they are.

Lee, Al

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There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow.

Pirandello, Luigi

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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

Rostand, Jean

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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Stein, Gertrude

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.

Garrison Keillor

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A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

Weil, Simone

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I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.

Mary Chase

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The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless.

Sales, Raoul De

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Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Lily Tomlin

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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Eliot, George

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The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of this planet.

Kennedy, John F.

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Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems --but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.

Rushdie, Salman

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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Bramah, Ernest

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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

Stein, Ben

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What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.

Brecht, Bertolt

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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hesse, Hermann

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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable -- now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual saying

Woolf, Virginia

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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Humphrey, Hubert H.