Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

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

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 is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Hob Broun

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lee, Al

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Smith, Huston

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Moore, George

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Ellen Herman

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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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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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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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Weil, Simone

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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 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