Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Rostand, Jean

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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He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.

Bramah, Ernest

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

Ellen Herman

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Moore, George

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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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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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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 is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

Lee, Al

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Hob Broun

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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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Josh Lieb

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Garrison Keillor

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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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Jane Wagner

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