Motivational Quotes

Reality

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Reality

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

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

Garrison Keillor

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Kennedy, John F.

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.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

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

Ellen Herman

11.

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

12.

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.

Daniels, Victor

13.

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

15.

Reality is neither good nor bad; it just is.

Dale, Arbie M.

16.

Reality in our century is not something to be faced.

Greene, Graham

17.

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

Eliot, George

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Mary Chase

21.

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

22.

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

Jane Wagner

23.

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

Lily Tomlin

24.

A cause a day keeps reality away.

Fraser, Jim

25.

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

Hesse, Hermann

26.

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

27.

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

Dr. Karl Menninger

28.

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

29.

No authority is higher than reality.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

30.

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

31.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Lennon, John

32.

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

Bramah, Ernest

33.

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

Lee, Al

34.

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

Chopra, Deepak

35.

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

36.

Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.

Marston, Ralph

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Hob Broun

40.

Everything is self-evident.

Descartes, Rene

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Albert Einstein

45.

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Trilling, Lionel

46.

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

47.

Our intention creates our reality.

Dyer, Wayne

48.

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.

49.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

50.

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

Dick, Philip K.