Nothing Feels Real Quotes

#1. Nothing feels real, but that's not a problem because she still hopes that at some point she'll wake up and this will all have been a dream.

Lucy Dillon

#2. No-one who has a real understanding of the art of painting attaches any importance to what we call the subject of a picture - what is represented. To one who feels the language of pictorial form, all depends on how it is presented, nothing on what.

Roger Fry

#3. It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

Mark Nepo

#4. I've always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#5. To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.

Matt Haig

#6. I remember what it feels like to come with open hands and heart and I am, again, awed by the Story of in the beginning, water into wine, love held by nails, the veil torn, resurrected life. He is real, more real than anything I will ever see with my eyes, hear with my ears, or touch with my hands.

Lisa Whittle

#7. Even though I'm sleeping again, everything still feels a little rickety, like I'm here but not quite here, like I'm just a stand-in for my real self, like someone could just reach over and pinch me and I'd deflate. I thought I was feeling better, but I don't know anymore.

Amy Reed

#8. He, who had once been whole, was halved, without hope of ever being complete again. And when you've known that kind of love, to endure the creeping passage of time without it is to live a half-life where nothing ever feels real.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal experience. Real sex, the sex in our cells and in the space between our neurons, leaks out and gets into things and stains our vision and colors our lives.

Sallie Tisdale

#10. There's no bonus to seeing life through a dirty lens, even if it feels more real.

Sally Hanan

#11. Even when I'm reading a script where I'm supposed to be looking at the lead role, I'll find myself gravitating toward some small weirdo in a few scenes instead. I'm very instinctive like that and I love the challenge of not having a lot of time to create someone who feels real.

Melanie Lynskey

#12. She keeps her eyes closed but smiles, giving herself away. "Shush, I'm having a dream." "It's not a dream. It's all real." "How would you know? You're not even in it." She feels playful, heavy with happiness. With rightness. "I'm in all of them," he says. "It's where I live now.

Laini Taylor

#13. Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#14. When something feels real, you don't make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

Rihanna

#15. Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

Stephen Graham Jones

#16. We all live within our belief solar systems; it's how we make it through each day. What feels "real" and "true" is based on it. Internal consistency and function means that a belief solar system is simply livable, but it says nothing about its veracity.

Daniel Ionson

#17. No doubt, in complete abstraction one has a feeling of a great shock, if not an explosion, and in approaching the real, one feels health and truth restored ...

Jean Helion

#18. I can feel him. He feels real. He smells like wet cat. He has fingers. Cats do not have fingers.

Katherine Applegate

#19. The real measure of success is how one feels about being alive.

Marty Rubin