Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

- Philip K. Dick

Best Quotes about Reality

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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 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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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

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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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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lily Tomlin

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Trilling, Lionel

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

Eliot, George

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Jane Wagner

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

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

Daney, Serge