Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Smith, Huston

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Hesse, Hermann

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Moore, George

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

Ellen Herman

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Jane Wagner

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

Cocteau, Jean

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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

Smith, Huston

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Hob Broun

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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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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

Chopra, Deepak

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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

Lily Tomlin

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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rostand, Jean

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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 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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene