Motivational Quotes

Reality

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.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Philip K. Dick

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

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Moore, George

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

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

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

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

Albert Einstein

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

Lily Tomlin

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

Garrison Keillor

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Facts as facts do not always create a spirit of reality, because reality is a spirit.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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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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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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Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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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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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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

Jane Wagner

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

Hob Broun

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

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

Lee, Al