Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Mary Chase

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

Miller, Henry

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks.

Ellen Herman

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Lee, Al

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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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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 a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest --thought, action --is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

Pavese, Cesare

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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

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

Jane Wagner

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Lily Tomlin

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Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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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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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Weil, Simone

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

Ballard, J. G.

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Garrison Keillor

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Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hob Broun

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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