Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Philip K. Dick

Best Quotes about Reality

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

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

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

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Albert Einstein

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

Bramah, Ernest

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Lee, Al

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Ellen Herman

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Chopra, Deepak

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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.