294 Quotes About Realism

A bird is a birdSlavery means slaveryA knife is a knifeDeath remains death

Anyone could see that this woman is living a nightmare. Except that she goes through her daily life wide awake, knowing that she could make a mistake at any moment.

There are no pessimists; there are only realists and liars.

For innocence lostThe same is the costThe ride of your lifeBut you can never get off

Life is like a story, when all the resolution is resolved, you heave a sigh of relief.

Our objective as a realist is to maximize our worth, and our objective as a romanticist is to be foolishly youthful.

It seems to me that you might create any sort of character in a novel and there would be at least one person in the world just like him. We humans are simply incapable of imagining non-human actions or behavior. It's the writer's fault if we don't believe in his characters as human beings.

It is children who are the true realists: they never proceed from generalities. The adult recognizes the general form in a particular example, a representative of the species, dismisses everything else and states: that’s lilac, there’s an ash tree, an apple tree. The child perceives individuals, personalities. He sees the unique form, and doesn’t mask it with a common name or function.

People don't suddenly just change, you just suddenly see the real them.