Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Ellen Herman

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

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

Hob Broun

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

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

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Eliot, George

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Moore, George

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.