The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As… — Meredith L. Young-Sowers Copy Share Image
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does,… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
always there is a sort of dream of air between you and the hills of California, a veil of unreality in the… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Um, yeah, it's one of the things that you kind of have to accept at the very beginning, like I'm not going… — Mary Elizabeth Winstead Copy Share Image
Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“It doubtless seems highly paradoxical to assert that Time is unreal, and that all statements which involve its reality are erroneous. Such… — John McTaggart Copy Share Image
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The global warming deniers persist in this air of unreality. After all, the entire north polar icecap, which has been there for… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
“For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality.… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
As soon as the mind pulls out an agenda and decides what needs to change, that's unreality. Life doesn't need to decide… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I… — Robert E. Howard Copy Share Image
Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Unmixed praise is not due to any one. It leaves behind a sense of unreality. We can only do justice to a… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
We 'rid ourselves of conceptual thought' when, by persistent observation, we recognize the unreality of our self-centered thoughts. Then we can remain… — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
One of our priorities when doing "March" is to sort of undo what we feel is the disservice done by what we… — Nate Powell Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
There should be painless progression, attended by life and peace…Mortals will some day assert their freedom in the name of Almighty God…Dropping… — Mary Baker Eddy Copy Share Image
When your tongue is silent, you can rest in the silence of the forest. When your imagination is silent, the forest speaks… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Humanity does not suffer from the disease of wrong beliefs but humanity suffers from the contagious nature of the lack of belief.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
“A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evil. Seen from the highest point… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image