Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Lee, Al

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

Bramah, Ernest

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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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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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Lily Tomlin

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Jane Wagner

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

Ellen Herman

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Smith, Huston

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

Moore, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dick, Philip K.

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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