Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Jane Wagner

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

Lee, Al

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Mary Chase

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Smith, Huston

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Cyril Connolly

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Moore, George

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Weil, Simone

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

Hob Broun

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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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 is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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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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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