Unreal Quotes

• One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Real, Anger, Society

  "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Life, Yoga, Reality

  "Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

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• The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

  John Lennon

  Music, Real, Jazz

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• People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like you're watching television -- you don't feel anything.

  Andy Warhol

  Strong, Real, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  World, Moments, Existence

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• Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Dream, Real, Age

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• and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

  James Patterson

  Thinking, Kind, Life Is

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• It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Reality, World, Seems

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

  Byron Katie

  Past

  Twitter post from Apr 28, 2017

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• Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

  Helen Schucman

  Real, Threatened

  Helen Schucman “A Course in Miracles - Manual For Teachers”, A Course in Miracles

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• There is no reality except the one contained within us.

  Hermann Hesse

  Philosophy, Reality, Demian

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Powerful, Real, Believe

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Angel, Age, May

  "The Minister's Wooing".

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• Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Life, Pain, Mistake

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• Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  Wallace Stevens

  Mirrors, Crowds, Foolish

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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• Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

  Margery Williams

  Real, Self Esteem, Lasts

  Margery Williams, Margery Williams Bianco (2011). “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Became Real”, p.14, Marshall Cavendish

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• Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Night, Shadow

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• Truth is inseperable from the illusory belief that from the figures of the unreal one day, in spite of all, real deliverance will come.

  Theodor Adorno

  Real, One Day, Belief

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• The kid was so handsome, he almost looked unreal.

  Ilona Andrews

  Kids, Handsome

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.90, Penguin

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• Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

  Anne Lamott

  Perfection, Shallow

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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 efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Real, Silly, Effort

  Aleksandar Hemon (2008). “The Lazarus Project”, p.39, Penguin

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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

  Inspirational, Believe, Belief

  Peter Kreeft, Fr. Ronald Tacelli (2016). “Handbook of Catholic Apologetics: Reasoned Answers to Questions of Faith”, p.18, Ignatius Press

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• Sexual desire may burn like fire, but when you give a thought to when you are ill, then your excitement dies down. Fame and fortune may be sweet as candy, but when you give a thought to when you die, then their flavor is like chewing wax. Therefore, if people are usually concerned about death and illness, this can also dissolve unreal activities and develop longing for the way.

  Zicheng Hong

  Sweet, Fire, People

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• If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dying, Accomplish, Ifs

  Duino Elegies no. 4 (written 1912) (translation by Stephen Mitchell)

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• Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

  e. e. cummings

  Breathing, World, Unreal World

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