Motivational Quotes

Reality

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Reality

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.

T. S. Eliot

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

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

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

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

Jane Wagner

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

Smith, Huston

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

Philip K. Dick

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

Kennedy, John F.

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

Hesse, Hermann

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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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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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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

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

Lee, Bruce

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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hob Broun

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Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Peter, Laurence J.

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Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bramah, Ernest

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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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The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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

Rostand, 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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A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

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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 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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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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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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The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Stein, Gertrude

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No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Dick, Philip K.

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

Lily Tomlin

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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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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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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 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.