Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality is something you rise above.

- Liza Minnelli

Best Quotes about Reality

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Daney, Serge

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

Smith, Huston

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Moore, 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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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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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

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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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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Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Lee, Bruce

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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

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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 merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

Ellen Herman

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Jane Wagner

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Eliot, George

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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