Motivational Quotes

Reality

All the things you think you should have done that you didn't do, and all of the things that you shouldn't have done, accept them. You did (or did not) do them. That's reality. That's happened. No changing the past.

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Smith, Huston

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Daniels, Victor

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

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

Mary Chase

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Eliot, George

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

Lee, Al

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

Lee, Bruce

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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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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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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Weil, Simone

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Mcwilliams, Peter

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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Moore, George

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Bramah, Ernest

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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Ellen Herman

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

Rostand, Jean

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Cocteau, Jean