Unreal's Quotes

#1. Truth becomes fiction when the fiction's true;
Real becomes not-real where the unreal's real.

Cao Xueqin

#2. 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

#3. I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

Waris Dirie

#4. 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

#5. I'm so glad you brought that up Jay Lethal as a performer has grown into, I'll say this even though I'm wrestling him this Friday, he's one of my favorite wrestlers in the game right now. He's unreal. He's amazing in the ring. It doesn't matter who he's wresting. He's unreal on the microphone.

Adam Cole

#6. It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it.

George R R Martin

#7. Let's just agree that neither side has a monopoly on assholes. The point is, once you recognize that every human model of reality is fundamentally unreal, then it all just comes down to which one works best.

Peter Watts

#8. I beg you, cease going from lecture to lecture; It's better to seek truth directly. The nature of Diamond Wisdom excludes even a speck of dust. From "Thus we have heard," to "This I believe," All is but an array of unreal names.

Layman Pang

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

Ralph Lauren

#12. He's unreal. Even his flaws are great.

Bridie Hall

#13. There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

Hermann Hesse

#14. I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. Just going to Comic-Con alone, that's an unreal experience on its own. I think if everyone in the world could experience that place, it would change their outlook. It's just one big lovefest. It's pretty incredible.

Ari Millen

#16. To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes.

Colin Montgomerie

#17. To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

Milan Kundera

#18. 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

#19. The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

Pearl S. Buck

#20. It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability.

Elliott Abrams

#21. In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces and locomotion, usually seems too dangerous and demanding to live through with any confidence.

Jonathan Raban

#22. 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. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.

Zadie Smith

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Hank wants to have a conversation tonight. We had a conversation last night! I can't have another conversation! He'l say shit that freaks me out because he's, like, in my brain. We haven't even known each other for two weeks! How can he be in my brain? It's unreal ..

Kristen Ashley

#26. I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job,

Valeria Lukyanova

#27. Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.

Graham Greene

#28. Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must seem like a merely dramatic representation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#29. Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

Michael Ende

#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. 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

#32. 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

#33. To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master.

Les Claypool

#34. Sometimes it still seems unreal just to board a plane and fly to America, because that's something that I'd always dreamed of, but I was completely sure would never happen, and sometimes, when I think about that, it still feels a bit unreal.

Tom Wlaschiha

#35. 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

#36. What had happened was going to be always on me, in me, as permanent as one of Roberta's tattoos. "Dolores," I said. I repeated my name over and over until it sounded warped and unreal. I was never going to be myself again.

Wally Lamb

#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. It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

Rosamund Pike

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.

Nancy Kress

#42. I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.

Hilary Liftin

#43. Ammu's tears made everything that had so far seemed unreal, real.

Arundhati Roy

#44. I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.

Tom Holland

#45. Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

C.S. Lewis

#46. It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody.

Roger Federer

#47. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Eugene O'Neill

#48. In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.

Joan Armatrading

#49. 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

#50. Unreal friendship may turn to real
But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended

T. S. Eliot

#51. 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

#52. Writers who have the vision and the ability to produce real fiction do not produce unreal fiction.

Raymond Chandler

#53. 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

#54. should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But

Oscar Wilde

#55. Fiction is the unreal estate.

Stephen King

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. You're this gorgeous catastrophe. You're unreal.

Sarah Harian

#60. I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

David Lynch

#61. 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

#62. Law of economy: nothing is waste. Even the unreal. What a sublimity in the process.

Philip K. Dick

#63. 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

#64. ...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

#65. 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

#66. Special emotions that arise only in a dark corner unknown to other people, where the real and the unreal secretly mingle.

Haruki Murakami

#67. The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#68. The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ...

Bruno Bettelheim

#69. 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

#70. No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal.

Gregory Benford

#71. Everything in life seems unreal.

Charlotte Bronte

#72. They became part of that unreal but penetrating and exciting universe which is the world seen through the eyes of love

Virginia Woolf

#73. 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

#74. 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

#75. Man, that's unreal," she says. "Yeah, it is. But it's my real.

Colleen Hoover

#76. Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#77. 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

#78. But this girl isn't just beautiful. She's perfect in a way that's unreal

Alex Flinn

#79. I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Christopher Nolan

#80. Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#81. Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen.

Amanda Palmer

#82. 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

#83. 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

#84. 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

#85. 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

#86. 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

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.

Robert E. Howard

#90. 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

#91. 'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal!

Andre Iguodala

#92. 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

#93. 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

#94. 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

#95. 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

#96. 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

#97. 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

#98. 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

#99. It's as if I've stepped through a time portal into a place where acceptance is the norm, so unreal.

Jenna Roads

#100. To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

Vine Deloria Jr.