Motivational Quotes

Reality

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

- T. S. Eliot

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Smith, Huston

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Daney, Serge

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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 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 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.

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Jane Wagner

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

Garrison Keillor

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lily Tomlin

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

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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 merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Ellen Herman

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Lee, Al

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

Lee, Bruce