Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Kennedy, John F.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Weil, Simone

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Moore, George

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

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

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

Garrison Keillor

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

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Jane Wagner

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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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Smith, Huston

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

Eliot, George

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

Lee, Al

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

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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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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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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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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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 neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Hob Broun

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

Lily Tomlin

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