Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

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

Daniels, Victor

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

Hob Broun

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

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Weil, Simone

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Eliot, George

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Lee, Al

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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 is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Daney, Serge

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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 for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moore, George

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Smith, Huston

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Ellen Herman

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Garrison Keillor

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

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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