294 Quotes About Realism

As a sculpture, she would be beautiful, if too relentlessly realistic for local tastes. Most Yumenescenes prefer polite abstraction over vulgar actuality.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised how much pleasure you get from material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

لكن طعم الحياة الواقعية كان مرّاً للغاية، ولم أجد قط شيئاً ممّا يحيط بي ليساعدني على تجرعه، فاحتسيته بمرارة كفنجان قهوة سيئ صباح كلّ يوم.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.

Realism is the light that shines between change and challenge.

Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible.