294 Quotes About Realism

From love's absolutism to love's absolution? No: I don't believe in the cosy narratives of life some find necessary, just as I choke on comforting words like redemption and closure. Death is the only closure I believe in; and the wound will stay open until that final shutting of the doors. As for redemption, it's far too neat, a movie-maker's bromide; and beyond that, it feels like something grand, which human beings are too imperfect to deserve, much less bestow upon themselves.

Aren't 3,000 lives worth a miracle to a good and all-powerful god?

Wounds, inflicted by truth...no matter how deeply physical or psychological; cannot ever create the grounds for logic in the real world, try...as one might. It just doesn't happen. Period.

Be idealistic about the future, be realistic about the present, and never forget the lessons of the past.

To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

Utterly bleak and black is not the sum of realism. All the other colors are real, too.

When the emergency brappers went of they did what any dedicated, well-trained and quick-minded Service personnel would do; they paniced.From the short story What Makes Us Human.

Some people are optimists. Some people are pessimists. I'm just a realist who believes that some things are worth fighting for.