Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Jane Wagner

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Daniels, Victor

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

Garrison Keillor

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

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Moore, George

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

Smith, Huston

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

Ellen Herman

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Hob Broun

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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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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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 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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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Cyril Connolly

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Weil, Simone

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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.

Bell, Marvel

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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