Quotes About Realism

She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

The laws of the Torah ask of each generation to fulfill what is within its power to fulfill. Some of its laws (for example Exodus 21:2 ff),14 do not represent ideals but compromises, realistic attempts to refine the moral condition of ancient man.

If you attempt what is beyond your power, your trouble will be wasted and you court not only misfortune but ridicule.

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards.

Cynics are, in the end, only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Adulthood involves learning to conclusively bury a great many of our hopes.

A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.

Despite our best efforts to clean it of its peculiarities, sex will never be either simple or nice in the ways we might like it to be.

Romantic idea of love: he has found the right person; he has opened his heart to her; and he has been accepted. But he is, of course, nowhere yet. He and Kirsten will marry, they will suffer, they will frequently worry about money, they will have a girl first, then a boy, one of them will have an affair, there will be passages of boredom, they'll sometimes want to murder one another and on a few occasions to kill themselves. This will be the real love story.

cynics are merely idealists with unusually high standards. Through

Asumption: monogamy is the natural state of love.(...) It is not! It is an infantile idealism to wish to find everything in one other being

Agora ele sabe que as ideias românticas são uma receita de desastre. Sua aptidão para o casamento baseia-se em critérios bem diferentes. Ele está apto para o casamento porque — para começar a lista — desistiu da perfeição.

The field seems to require a painfully uncommon synthesis of imagination and realism.

quienes se burlan de la amistad [...] bien pueden ser los mejores amigos del mundo», quizá porque quienes lo hacen abordan ese vínculo con expectativas más realistas que el resto.

The Romantic ideas are, he knows now, a recipe for disaster. His readiness for marriage is based on a quite different set of criteria. He is ready for marriage because—to begin the list—he has given up on perfection.

As he read the long narrative poem, Lewis was struck by two qualities in particular. He admired the realism of Tolkien's sub-created world, the depth and detail of Middle-earth. He also praised the mythical value of the story, the way the events were good in themselves and yet also suggested deeper layers of meaning to the reader. But

God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a great realist. He was one of the few who quickly understood, even before Hitler came to power, that National Socialism was a brutal attempt to make history without God and to found it on the strength of man alone.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

We must design for the way people behave, not for how we would wish them to behave.

I say its realism, bearing on mind Harold Rosenbergs wicked remark that realism is one of fifty-seven varieties of decoration. What about the term experimental, which is often applied to your work? Its not quite a hostile remark, but it does contain within it the notion of the failed experiment. Something like Bone Bubbles was, yes, an experiment and although I wouldnt suggest it was wholly successful, I thought it worth publishing. Its something I do along with a number of other things.