Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Albert Einstein

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Daney, Serge

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

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

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

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Smith, Huston

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

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Albert Einstein

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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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 bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Moore, George

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

Eliot, George

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

Ellen Herman

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lee, Al

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Jane Wagner

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Cyril Connolly

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

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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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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 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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Hob Broun

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

Garrison Keillor

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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 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