Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Jane Wagner

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Moore, George

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Cyril Connolly

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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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 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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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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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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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 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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Chopra, Deepak

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

Garrison Keillor

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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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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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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lee, Bruce

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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 is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends upon what we look for. What we look for depends upon what we think. What we think depends upon what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we believe. What we believe determines what we take to be true. what we take to be true is our reality.

Zukav, Gary

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Albert Einstein

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

Eliot, George

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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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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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