Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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 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

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

Hob Broun

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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 neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Garrison Keillor

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Jane Wagner

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Lee, Al

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

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

Ellen Herman

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cyril Connolly

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Lee, Bruce

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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