Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Mary Chase

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

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

Dick, Philip K.

Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Cyril Connolly

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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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 leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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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 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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Jane Wagner

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

Lee, Bruce

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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.

Mary Chase

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

Ellen Herman

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

Humphrey, Hubert H.

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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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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

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

Hob Broun

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Moore, George

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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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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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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim