Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Cyril Connolly

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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

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

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

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lily Tomlin

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ellen Herman

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

Hob Broun

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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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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Lee, Al

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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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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Moore, George

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No authority is higher than reality.

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

Jane Wagner

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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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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.