Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Hob Broun

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Moore, George

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

Bhagavad Gita

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Cyril Connolly

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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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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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Eliot, George

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Ellen Herman

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Smith, Huston

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lee, Al

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Weil, Simone

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Garrison Keillor

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

Jane Wagner

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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