Unreal Quotes · Page 6

If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

To have someone who never makes a mistake, never finds her personal life in disarray, never worries about work-life balance? I think…

— Sophie Kinsella

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's…

— Ralph Lauren

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record.

— Barry Lyga

There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning.…

— Jermaine Jackson

Any great and inspiring leader or organization that ever existed set out to do something completely unrealistic.

— Simon Sinek

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Many times people come to me to be reassured. They ask, they say, 'I'm feeling very happy and blissful. What do you…

— Rajneesh

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking…

— Gaston Bachelard

The only reward the musician receives is music: The privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and…

— Robert Fripp

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false.…

— Harold Pinter

All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had…

— Virginia Woolf

It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If…

— Fred Durst

The only reward the musician receives is music: the privilege of standing in the presence of music when it leans over and…

— Robert Fripp

There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the…

— Robert E. Howard

My dad was a huge basketball influence in my life on and off the court. Playing for him and having him around,…

— Blake Griffin

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that…

— Anonymous

I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to…

— Sviatoslav Richter

In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their…

— John Updike

“Besides stage magic props and settings, ritually abusing groups use technology, such as that described by Katz and Fotheringham. Military/political groups have…

— Alison Miller

After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he…

— John Steinbeck

I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of…

— W. G. Sebald

“Lead us from the unreal to the real. Lead us from darkness to light. Lead us from death to immortality".”

— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.3.28

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

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that…

— Carli Lloyd

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few…

— Terence McKenna

“The facts that make the world real-- these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.”

— Ingeborg Bachmann

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

— Peter Kreeft

Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

— Steve Vai

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

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

— Colin Montgomerie

“The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg

My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance…

— Megan Follows

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.

— Simon Raven

The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal.

— Ashley Wagner

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where…

— Oscar Wilde

I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing.

— Anna Kavan

The advice of their elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr