Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Bhagavad Gita

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

Lee, Al

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

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Ellen Herman

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

10.

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

Garrison Keillor

11.

The reality of life is that your perceptions -- right or wrong -- influence everything else you do. When you get a proper perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how many other things fall into place.

Birkman, Roger

12.

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

Cocteau, Jean

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Jane Wagner

19.

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

Moore, George

20.

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

21.

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

22.

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

Eliot, George

23.

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

Albert Einstein

24.

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.

25.

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

Pancoast, Mal

26.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

27.

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

Daniels, Victor

28.

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

29.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

30.

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

31.

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

Kennedy, John F.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Mary Chase

35.

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

Weil, Simone

36.

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

37.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

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

Chopra, Deepak

42.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

43.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

44.

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

45.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

46.

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

47.

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

Hob Broun

48.

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

Dick, Philip K.

49.

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

50.

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