Motivational Quotes

Reality

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.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

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

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Ellen Herman

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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 something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Hob Broun

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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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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Lee, Al

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

Albert Einstein

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

Eliot, George

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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 is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Smith, Huston