Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

- Greene, Graham

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

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

Daniels, Victor

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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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Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Hesse, Hermann

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

Jane Wagner

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

Eliot, George

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Smith, Huston

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Ellen Herman

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bramah, Ernest

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Chopra, Deepak

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

Hob Broun

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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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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.

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Lee, Al

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.