Realism Quotes

"I try to be a realist and not a pessimist or an optimist."

"What's cool about 'Insecure' is it's very realistic and nuanced."

"I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face."

"There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic."

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”

“Life in general has never been even close to fair.”

“A man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”

“Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.”

“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Marriage is like life in this: that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

“It is desirable to guard against the possibility of exaggerated ideas that might arise as to the powers of the Analytical Engine.”