Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Trilling, Lionel

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Bhagavad Gita

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Philip K. Dick

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

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

Ellen Herman

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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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Cyril Connolly

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Hob Broun

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hesse, Hermann

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The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lily Tomlin

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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

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Daniels, Victor

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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

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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Moore, George

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

Smith, Huston

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Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Kennedy, John F.

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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.

Dick, Philip K.

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

Lee, Al

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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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Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Ionesco, Eugene