“I was dizzy in that room. I felt faint with disbelief. I held on to the seat of my chair to stay… — Sonali Deraniyagala Copy Share Image
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
“I was deluded, and I knew it. Worse: my love for Pippa was muddied-up below the waterline with my mother, with my… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The world just feels different for those of us who come alive after dark. It's more fragile and unreal, a replica of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
Loneliness is a long, unbearable pain....There was never a place for me in the scheme of things....I had become a living fantasy… — Dennis Nilsen Copy Share Image
If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. If you do… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
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… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
We loosely talk of Self-realization, for lack of a better term. But how can one realize that which alone is real? All… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing. — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Money is part of how we move through the world, what stores and restaurants we go into, whether we take a train… — Akhil Sharma Copy Share Image
When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
Insincerity in a man's own heart must make all his enjoyments, all that concerns him, unreal; so that his whole life must… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
For me, take Tiger Woods. I always thought he was great, but I never truly understood how good he was until I… — Larry Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You want to create things as purely as possible without allowing the universe to interfere so much that it's manipulating it and… — Angel Olsen Copy Share Image
We declare that only man exists. This is not to say that material, inorganic nature and nonhuman beings-animals and plants-are in any… — Medard Boss Copy Share Image
When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
Don't you find it rather heavy, to have everything really in front of you – all the people who are going to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
