Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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

Philip K. Dick

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

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

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Cocteau, Jean

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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

Eliot, George

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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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

Lee, Al

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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Jane Wagner

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

Lily Tomlin

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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 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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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Lee, Bruce

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moore, George

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