Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Reality

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

Bramah, Ernest

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

Lee, Al

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

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 in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

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

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

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

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

Lily Tomlin

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

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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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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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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Cyril Connolly

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

Dick, Philip K.

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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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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

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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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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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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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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

Hob Broun

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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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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Eliot, George

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

Cocteau, Jean

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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, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Albert Einstein

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

Jane Wagner

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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