Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Rostand, Jean

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Lily Tomlin

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

Moore, George

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 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 stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Jane Wagner

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

Rostand, Jean

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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Smith, Huston

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Ellen Herman

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

Trilling, Lionel

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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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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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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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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Weil, Simone

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