Motivational Quotes

Reality

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Jane Wagner

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

Ellen Herman

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

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

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

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

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

Mary Chase

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

Albert Einstein

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Moore, George

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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

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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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

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

Daniels, Victor

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Weil, Simone

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Hob Broun

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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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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.