Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Garrison Keillor

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Smith, Huston

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

Philip K. Dick

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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

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

Lee, Bruce

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Weil, Simone

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

Moore, George

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

Ellen Herman

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Rostand, Jean

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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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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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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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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Lee, Al

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

Kennedy, John F.

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Eliot, George

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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 something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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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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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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