Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Cocteau, Jean

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Ellen Herman

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

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Garrison Keillor

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Jane Wagner

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

Bramah, Ernest

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hob Broun

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

Dick, Philip K.

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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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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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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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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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 crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

Lily Tomlin

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

Moore, George

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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