Motivational Quotes

Reality

A cause a day keeps reality away.

- Fraser, Jim

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

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

Jane Wagner

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

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Eliot, George

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

Weil, Simone

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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

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Ellen Herman

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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hob Broun

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

Lee, Al

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Garrison Keillor

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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'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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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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 neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Smith, Huston

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.