Top 100 Quotes About Unreal
#1. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. Man, that's unreal," she says. "Yeah, it is. But it's my real.
Colleen Hoover
#3. As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
Susan Sontag
#4. It would not be until darkness had taken indisputable control over the land, until the flames of the bonfire created an unreal world of shadows, until tequila and mescal untied men from their somber selves.
Warren Eyster
#5. They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love
Virginia Woolf
#7. No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Gregory Benford
#8. Reality is that which exists; the unreal does not exist; the unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reason. Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.
Ayn Rand
#9. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...
Bruno Bettelheim
#10. The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#11. Special emotions that arise only in a dark corner unknown to other people, where the real and the unreal secretly mingle.
Haruki Murakami
#12. Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction.
Raymond Chandler
#13. ...The conversation had become unreal since Christianity had entered it. Ronny approved of religion as long as it endorsed the National Anthem, but he objected when it attempted to influence his life.
E. M. Forster
#14. The whole purpose of scientific method is to make valid distinctions between the false and the true in nature, to eliminate the subjective, unreal, imaginary elements from one's work so as to obtain an objective, true picture of reality.
Robert M. Pirsig
#15. Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process.
Philip K. Dick
#16. When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.
Bertrand Russell
#17. I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
David Lynch
#18. You're this gorgeous catastrophe. You're unreal.
Sarah Harian
#19. You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and making things unreal to you.
Angel Olsen
#20. They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.
Marlo Morgan
#21. All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.
Virginia Woolf
#23. should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But
Oscar Wilde
#24. Kitsch is the most pernicious of all prisons. The bars are covered with the gold of simplistic, unreal feelings, so that you take them for the pillars of a palace.
Pascal Mercier
#25. Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
June Jordan
#26. To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
Vine Deloria Jr.
#27. It's as if I've stepped through a time portal into a place where acceptance is the norm, so unreal.
Jenna Roads
#28. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.
Kylie Minogue
#29. We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All we need to do is to give up our habit of regarding as real that which is unreal. All religious practices are meant solely to help us do this.
Ramana Maharshi
#30. Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.
Soren Kierkegaard
#31. Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.
Walt Disney
#32. There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out
what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.
Aleksandar Hemon
#33. As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!
Charles Dickens
#34. Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
Terence McKenna
#35. 'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!
Andre Iguodala
#36. The worst possible sexual education: a taboo imposed by the Catholic church plus romantic literature elevating love to unreal heights plus the obscene language of my peers. After all, I was nearly born in the nineteenth century, and I have no tender feelings for it.
Czeslaw Milosz
#37. You talk books away," he said; "why don't you write one?" "I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal.
Oscar Wilde
#38. The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.
Ashley Wagner
#39. Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
Kate Bush
#40. Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal.
Wallace Stevens
#41. I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal.
Chris Cornell
#42. People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.
Andy Warhol
#43. Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.
Cao Xueqin
#44. Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal
Emma Mckenzie
#45. The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of the one everyone else inhabits.
Jodi Picoult
#46. No way. I'm so in, it's unreal. I just want you to know that if we make it to Plan E, I'm running. Far away. And possibly changing my name.
Darynda Jones
#47. Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.
Tom Baker
#48. Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
Claude Monet
#49. The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#50. Whatsoever is taken as real, becomes real. Whatsoever is taken as unreal, becomes unreal. You are the creator of your whole world around you; remember this.
Anonymous
#51. One must know oneself as one is, not as one wishes to be, which is merely an ideal and therefore fictitious, unreal; it is only that which is that can be transformed, not that which you wish to be.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#52. He turned his face into the stream of water and closed his eyes. I'm not as sad as I'd have thought, he told himself. This is all unreal, he said to himself.
Roberto Bolano
#53. My hopes for a relationship with her were wholly unreal, whereas my ongoing misery, and frustration, were an all-too-horrible reality. Was groundless, hopeless romantic obsession any way to waste the rest of my life?
Donna Tartt
#54. I looked up at the wall. My bachelor's degree had been in History. Films like Back to the Future and Quantum Leap had been some of my favorite programs. Could time travel really be possible? This seemed too unreal.
Anna M. Aquino
#55. Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off ... p 207
Oscar Wilde
#56. Byron had to blink a dozen times, each time hoping the dream would end. But the unreal was real.
Peter Lerangis
#57. It's got two aspects. The bit that involves the public life I could not really tolerate and cannot really tolerate. I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that.
Zadie Smith
#58. Now I know she was playing at this point, but for Kimmy to do something like that was unreal. Kim
J. Peach
#59. This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
Dag Hammarskjold
#60. There is no remainder in the mathematics of infinity. All life is one; therefore, there cannot be God and man, nor a universe and God. A god not in the world is a false god, and a world not in God is unreal. All things return to one, and one operates in all.
Nyogen Senzaki
#61. At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?
Milan Kundera
#62. It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal.
Samuel R. Delany
#63. Failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.
Lillian Hellman
#64. Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
Simon Raven
#65. This unreal feeling was heightened when, after half an hour, she reached another High Street, more or less the same as the one she had left behind. That was all London was beyond its center, an agglomeration of dull little towns. She made a resolution never to live in any of them.
Ian McEwan
#66. He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors.
He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts.
He was moving from an unreality that was frightening into a reality that was unreal because it was new.
Ray Bradbury
#67. And I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?
James Patterson
#68. The thing is you're looking for something two-dimensional and not quite real. It never lasts. But you can't expect something unreal to last anyway, can you?
Haruki Murakami
#69. I remember, when I was about ten years old, working out that I would be thirty-six in the year 2000. It seemed so far away, so old, so unreal. And here I am, a fucked, crazy, anorexic-alcoholic-childless beautiful woman. I never dreamed it would be like this.
Tracey Emin
#70. Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
Amanda Palmer
#71. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#72. Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.
Roman Payne
#73. The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#74. Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman within is your real nature.
Swami Vivekananda
#75. As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.
Sarah Dessen
#76. To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;
Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;
And visions rising, legion after legion,
Bring the unreal world too strangely near.
Emily Bronte
#77. To yield to the mere process of disintegration has become an irresistible temptation, not only because it has assumed the spurious grandeur of "historical necessity," but also because everything outside it has begun to appear lifeless, bloodless, meaningless, and unreal. The
Hannah Arendt
#78. We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief.
Wei Wu Wei
#79. Dickens seems to have succeeded in attacking everybody and antagonizing nobody. Naturally this makes one wonder whether after all there was something unreal in his attack upon society.
George Orwell
#80. Some people in the town did not seem to care about the festival and were watching football on TV. The players were dotted about in neon green. They looked unreal, the way they might be seen by the forgotten man in the moon and the rabbit if they were watching the floodlit pitch forlornly from above.
Olivia Sudjic
#81. The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.
Rabih Alameddine
#82. Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
Margery Williams
#83. The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.
Chaim Potok
#84. I want to be bigger than everybody else, but I wouldn't want to be so big that people can't accept it. For instance, if you come in with 30-inch-arms, even your own peers aren't going to accept that. I wouldn't want to be that way. I wouldn't want to infinitely become unreal.
Mike Katz
#85. When you don't hear others, you don't imagine them, they become unreal, and you are left in the wasteland of a world with only yourself in it, and that surely makes you starving, though you know not for what, if you have ceased to imagine others exist in any true deep way that matters.
Rebecca Solnit
#86. They seemed as unreal as actors when you saw them on a movie screen. They were big up there - often beautiful, too - but they were still only shadows thrown by light.
Stephen King
#87. Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans.
Aleksandar Hemon
#88. I am a ghost to this man, I'm thinking. I am something unreal, something not quite tangible, yet still an obstacle of sorts and he nods, gets back on the phone, resumes speaking in a dialect totally alien to me.
Bret Easton Ellis
#89. Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,
loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#90. The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#91. Her beauty was matchless, face so elegantly crafted that she appeared ethereal; unreal. But while nature had clearly bestowed the gift of physical perfection, it had not breathed the warmth of humanity into its creation.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#92. It is real in such an intense way that it feels unreal, too.
David Levithan
#93. Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.
Kathryn Lasky
#94. Unreal things have a reality of their own, in poetry as elsewhere.
Wallace Stevens
#95. A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal.
Andrew Cohen
#96. [Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal
Megan Hilty
#97. Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
Janet Frame
#98. What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.
Amedeo Modigliani
#99. The future is as dark, as unreal, as the past.
John Gardner
#100. I've been alone with my thoughts for too long; I'm starting to feel unreal.
Sophie Hannah