Motivational Quotes

Reality

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

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

It takes only one other person to say it's so-one other point of reality to make something real.

Pancoast, Mal

Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

10.

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

11.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

12.

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

13.

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

Weil, Simone

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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

15.

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

16.

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

17.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

18.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

19.

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

20.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

21.

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

Trilling, Lionel

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Daney, Serge

26.

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

27.

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

Bramah, Ernest

28.

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

Ellen Herman

29.

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

Lily Tomlin

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

33.

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

Moore, George

34.

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

Cocteau, Jean

35.

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

Smith, Huston

38.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Philip K. Dick

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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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