Top 100 Real Unreal Quotes
#1. Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.
Gaston Bachelard
#2. The real in me longs for peace.
The unreal in me longs for power.
Sri Chinmoy
#3. We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
Stephen King
#4. Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
T. S. Eliot
#5. She is brave and strong and broken all at once. As she speaks it is as if her existence is no longer real to her in itself, more like a living epitaph to a life that was.
Anna Funder
#6. And since I'm well and on the bum again & aint got nothing else to do, but roam, long-faced, the real America, with my unreal heart, here I am eager and ready.
Jack Kerouac
#7. It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.
Sufjan Stevens
#8. Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.
Ramakrishna
#9. Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
Mary Baker Eddy
#10. None of that seemed real, but the world would certainly be cooler with something so unreal in it.
Holly Black
#11. What's real and what's unreal are like two balls that you alternatively toss in the air, catching one as you throw up the other.
Chloe Thurlow
#12. Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.
E. M. Forster
#13. It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal.
Fred Durst
#14. Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#16. Nothing real can be threatened; nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
Doreen Virtue
#17. It almost doesn't matter what is real or unreal. It really matters what we choose to believe.
Judy Frankel
#18. Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just because there is no logical place for it, no room in reality for it. It is unreal, and yet real as something unreal.
Laura Riding
#19. Wetiko doesn't objectively exist, and yet, at the same time, it is not merely our projection or imagination. Instead of an either/or universe, where phenomena like wetiko are either real or unreal, there is an area in between in which it is both/and
both real and unreal at the same time.
Paul Levy
#20. You know what I mean? Real and unreal, beautiful and strange, like a dream. It got me high as a kite, but it didn't last long enough. It ended too soon and left nothing behind."
That's how it is with dreams," said Priscilla. "They're the perfect crime.
Tom Robbins
#21. Fictional stories were written so that they seemed real, kind of like a well-executed lie. Fiction creates an unreal world that's better than the real one.
Hiroshi Ishizaki
#22. She was thinking how all those paths and the lawn, thick and knotted with the lives they had lived there, were gone: were rubbed out; were past; were unreal, and now this was real; the boat and the sail with its patch; Macalister with his earrings; the noise of the waves
all this was real.
Virginia Woolf
#23. Psychic development is a necessary skill in leading a successful and happy life. Your intellectual processes and your senses don't give you enough information to distinguish the real from the unreal.
Frederick Lenz
#24. With trees and rocks and the sea and the stars and the clouds and the sun - you cannot be unreal, you cannot be phoney. You HAVE to be real because when you are encountering nature, nature creates something in you which is natural. Responding to nature continuously, you become natural.
Rajneesh
#25. There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.
Harold Pinter
#26. What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.
Adi Shankara
#27. The harder I try to realistically portray real things, the more the things that appear in my work have a tendency to become unreal.
Haruki Murakami
#28. Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
Oscar Wilde
#29. One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
Alvin Toffler
#30. I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.
Ray Bradbury
#31. The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
Mignon McLaughlin
#32. Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies.
Erwin Blumenfeld
#33. Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
Helena Blavatsky
#34. Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#35. Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal; that all things appear as they do only by virtue of the delicate individual physical and mental media through which we are made
H.P. Lovecraft
#36. The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.
Deepak Chopra
#37. This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [ ... ] And as for our own history, the parts that will be lost, who cares if a mathematician calls us dirty names like "unreal"? They say such slanders about the square root of minus two as well.
Orson Scott Card
#38. A record is something that isn't real or true. It's like cinema. It's a construction of something hyper-real and surreal and unreal all at the same time. You make a space that doesn't really exist. One of the big joys of being in this line of work is building the recorded versions of the songs.
Will Oldham
#39. The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.
Mary McCarthy
#40. I like photography because it is a reality medium, unlike drawing which is unreal. I like to mess with reality ... to bend reality. Some of my works beg the question of is it real or not?
Storm Thorgerson
#41. Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.
Arundhati Roy
#42. We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.
Rupert Spira
#43. How we think about God matters. It affects the credibility of religion in general and of Christianity in particular. Our concept of God can make God seem real or unreal, just as it can also make God seem remote or near.
Marcus J. Borg
#44. Actually, he had always preferred the unreal to the real.
Milan Kundera
#45. What I thought was unreal now, for me, seems in some ways to be more real than what I think to be real, which seems now to be unreal
Fred Alan Wolf
#46. 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
#47. My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real.
Megan Follows
#48. I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting.
Max Beckmann
#49. All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.
Robert Anton Wilson
#50. Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#51. 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
#52. The Course teaches that fear is literally a bad dream. It is as though the mind has been split in two; one part stays in touch with love, and the other part veers into fear. Fear manufactures a kind of parallel universe where the unreal seems real,
Marianne Williamson
#53. 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
#54. It is real in such an intense way that it feels unreal, too.
David Levithan
#55. Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.
Margery Williams
#56. The memory seems both real and unreal, reliable and tenuous, solid and insubstantial.
Rabih Alameddine
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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.
#60. Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.
Amanda Palmer
#61. 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
#62. At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?
Milan Kundera
#63. Byron had to blink a dozen times, each time hoping the dream would end. But the unreal was real.
Peter Lerangis
#64. All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.
John Fowles
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.
Cao Xueqin
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.
Vine Deloria Jr.
#72. Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction.
Raymond Chandler
#73. Special emotions that arise only in a dark corner unknown to other people, where the real and the unreal secretly mingle.
Haruki Murakami
#74. The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#75. No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.
Gregory Benford
#76. It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!
Ethan Luck
#77. We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.
Philip Yancey
#78. I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#79. I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.
Odilon Redon
#80. When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.
Laurie Anderson
#81. The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence.
Jean Baudrillard
#82. I don't know who she is, or, if she will ever love me or not. But, I'm falling for her, in just one meeting. Is love at first sight for real? No, no, this is so unreal. Will she love me? Maybe love is unconditional. God ... I'm crazy ... I'm in love.
Rohit Sharma
#83. You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#84. This whole trip certainly feels real, and yet at the same time, it is unreal. How does that work? The thing is, we have to go through the unreal to the next reel.
Art Hochberg
#85. There's so much technology [in the Batman movies] that's unbelievable and seems unreal, so it's hard trying to get the audience to believe that it all exists. So we got Morgan Freeman to tell them that it's real. And that is why Christopher Nolan is a genius.
Michael Uslan
#86. Certain things happened in sleep. You became a pilgrim, something was in you that could not be steered. The dark was not real, there was no such thing as real, and all the stories you had ever told yourself were as real and as unreal as each other.
Elisabeth Murray
#87. To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think that would be unreal. What I'm writing is real.
Sophie Kinsella
#88. The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson
#89. Man, that's unreal," she says. "Yeah, it is. But it's my real.
Colleen Hoover
#90. We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.
Miguel Syjuco
#91. The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.
John Lennon
#92. The power of Manifestation is the ability to make seen the unseen, to real~ise the unreal
Misha Hoo
#93. Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal.
Elizabeth George
#94. The prize is in the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it [my work]
those are the real things, the honors are unreal to me.
Richard Feynman
#96. Millar Burrows of Yale observes: 'Archeology has in many cases refuted the views of modern critics. It has shown in a number of instances that these views rest on false assumptions and unreal, artificial schemes of historical development. This is a real contribution and not to be minimized.'
Millar Burrows
#97. She herself did not seem quite real. She was pale and almost transparent, the victim I used for my own enjoyment in dreams.
Anna Kavan
#99. No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.
Thomas Ligotti
#100. Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.
Theodor Adorno
