Best Unreal Thoughts
253 Unreal quotes by 216 unique authors
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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…
— Tom Robbins
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Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children,…
— Wendell Berry
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The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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You hate America, don't you?' That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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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…
— Virginia Woolf
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A child's reaction to this type of calamity is twofold and extreme. Not knowing how deeply, powerfully, life drops anchor into its vast sources of…
— Jean Cocteau
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The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers…
— Oscar Wilde
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This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of…
— Primo Levi
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We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.
— Peter Kreeft
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As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than…
— Sarah Dessen
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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…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.
— Anne Lamott
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Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.
— Michael Ende
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We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is…
— George F. Kennan
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My skin prickled and I looked back at the ocean. None of us ask for the things we inherit; they are thrust upon us, willy-nilly.…
— Aimee Friedman
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I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I…
— Jack Kerouac
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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…
— Milan Kundera
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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
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While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts,…
— Charles Dickens
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What makes you a real girl or boy is that no one laughs at you. If you are imitation or unreal, the rules give you…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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The kid was so handsome, he almost looked unreal.
— Ilona Andrews
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I couldn't tell fact from fiction, Or if the dream was true My only sure prediction In this world was you. I'd touch your features…
— Maya Angelou
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I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared…
— Haruki Murakami
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Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with…
— Marya Hornbacher
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Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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