Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Rostand, Jean

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Hob Broun

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

Lee, Al

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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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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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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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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

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Jane Wagner

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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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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

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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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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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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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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Ellen Herman

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

Smith, Huston

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

Albert Einstein

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Lee, Bruce