Reality And Unreality Quotes

#1. On a waiter's check pad," said Slartibartfast, "reality and unreality collide on such a fundamental level that each becomes the other and anything is possible, within certain parameters.

Douglas Adams

#2. Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances.

Grant Morrison

#3. What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly?

Stephen King

#4. The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it.

Allan Sherman

#5. To say "I" is to draw a circle in which writer and reader share a common existence within the margins of the page, where reality and unreality rub off each other, where words and what the words name contaminate each other.

Alberto Manguel

#6. What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.

Amedeo Modigliani

#7. It was a fabled railway that was the issue of desperation and fanaticism, made as much of myth and unreality as it was to be of wood and iron and the thousands upon thousands of lives that were to be laid down over the next year to build it. But what reality was ever made by realists?

Richard Flanagan

#8. There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. I withdraw my consent from reality. I deny it my assistance. I dedicate myself to the temptations of escapism, and throw myself wholeheartedly into the endlessness of unreality.

Ursula Poznanski

#10. Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.

Kenneth Rexroth

#11. I believe that the world is dying, not just me. And fantasy will save no one. The deathly unreality of Utopia, the merchandizing of Utopia is wicked, deadly reality.

Harold Brodkey

#12. She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it.

Nevil Shute

#13. I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research.

Billy Connolly

#14. Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.

Raheel Farooq

#15. In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality.

Al Gore

#16. Unreality cooled reality's burn.

Cameron Conaway

#17. What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it.

Morley Safer

#18. This has been my greatest challenge: because the current reality now seems so unreal, it's hard to make nonfiction seem believable. But you, my friend [Michael Moore], are able to do that.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. Give me your unknown hand, since life is hurting me and I don't know how to speak - reality is too delicate, only reality is delicate, my unreality and my imagination are heavier.

Clarice Lispector

#20. The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

Gertrude Stein

#21. We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality.

Peter Kreeft

#22. The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality ... eventually only the core remains.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#23. An unbearable reality, combined with the impossibility to change it, tends to lead to abstractions for abstraction's sake, and unreality becomes more realistic than reality itself, more true, more convincing, simply because it looks at you with the eyes of justice.

Romain Gary

#24. History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

Jean Cocteau

#25. What did it matter, since it was unreality, all of it, the pain and desire, the beginning and the end? There was no reality except this solitary road, this quite solitary road, along which on went rather puzzled, rather tired ...

H.G.Wells

#26. The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us.

John Lennon

#27. We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

Peter Greenaway

#28. 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

#29. There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#30. Secrets always tend towards a domino effect, dividing and mutating and acquiring as they multiply the force of irresistible momentum. One soon learns to live in the reality of the alternative unreality of one's making.

Panayotis Cacoyannis

#31. Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#32. 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

#33. All these people like my mother paying counselors and clinics to reattach them to reality; all of us people here paying Sony and Sega to reattach us to unreality.

David Mitchell