Motivational Quotes

Reality

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Reality

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Weil, Simone

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Eliot, George

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Hob Broun

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Philip K. Dick

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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Garrison Keillor

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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

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

Lily Tomlin

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Moore, George

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Smith, Huston

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

Cocteau, Jean

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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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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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

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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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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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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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.