Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Cyril Connolly

Best Quotes about Reality

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

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

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Smith, Huston

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

Lee, Al

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

Lily Tomlin

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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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Ellen Herman

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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Moore, George

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cocteau, Jean