Unreal Quotes - Page 5

• Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

  Michael Ende

  Lying, Reality, Names

  4 Copy quote

• 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 not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.

  George F. Kennan

  Rights, Should, Standards

  "PPS No. 23". Memo by George Kennan, en.wikisource.org. February 28, 1948.

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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. Like The Marine, I suddenly understood. Mom and I weren't trespassing. This house was ours. This view was ours. And that seemed as absurd and unreal as the stories Sailor Hat had spun for me on the ferry.

  Aimee Friedman

  Mom, Ocean, Marine

  17 Copy quote

• 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 larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.

  Milan Kundera

  Believe, Adults, Doe

  "Ignorance". Book by Milan Kundera, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Real, Hands, Play

  6 Copy quote

• 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, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

  Charles Dickens

  Life, Flower, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1996). “Little Dorrit”, p.320, Wordsworth Editions

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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 a right to exist provided you do what the real ones or brutes say. What makes you into me or Charles Morgan is that the rules allow all the girls to be better than me and all the boys better than Charles Morgan.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Girl, Bullying, Real

  Diana Wynne Jones (1988). “Witch Week”, Random House Books for Young Readers

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you support violence by being in a film like this. I mean, to me, it's incredibly unreal and it's all about the action, and just explosions.

  Rosamund Pike

  Mean, Games, Support

  10 Copy quote

• What is enquiry into the Truth? It is the firm conviction that the Self is real, and all, other than That, is unreal.

  Adi Shankara

  Truth, Real, Self

  250 Copy quote

• The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real. When it adheres to the unreal and intensifies what is unreal, while its first effect may be extraordinary, that effect is the maximum effect that it will ever have.

  Wallace Stevens

  Real, Imagination, Vitality

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination”, p.6, Vintage

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• When people want to be rid of Heaven it is logical to start by creating an atmosphere in which spiritual things appear out of place; in order to be able to declare successfully that God is unreal they have to construct around man a false reality, a reality that is inevitably inhuman because only the inhuman can exclude God. What is involved is a falsification of the imagination and so its destruction.

  Frithjof Schuon

  Spiritual, Reality, Men

  15 Copy quote

• We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Real, Character, People

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.31, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• With all humility, I think, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbor as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Selfish, Humility, Eye

  Speech to the Bar Association of Boston. "Speeches". Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., p. 85, 1934.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Colin Montgomerie

  Golf, Thinking, Guilt

  7 Copy quote

• Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Crazy, Mad, Should

  11 Copy quote

• Elgin's game was an incredible performance, also. I don't think there's any comparison. Elgin did it without three-point lines. His game was attacking the hoop and hitting jumpers inside 20 feet. Kobe's range is unreal, and he does it his way.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking, Feet

  4 Copy quote

• Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.

  Aristophanes

  Dream, Race, Darkness

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Birds”, p.21, Courier Corporation

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brother's morals - only of his rights.

  Judith Crist

  Brother, Creating, Rights

  4 Copy quote

• There is no logical impossibility in the hypothesis that the world sprang into being five minutes ago, exactly as it then was, with a population that "remembered" a wholly unreal past. There is no logically necessary connection between events at different times; therefore nothing that is happening now or will happen in the future can disprove the hypothesis that the world began five minutes ago.

  Bertrand Russell

  Past, Atheism, Events

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “The Analysis of Mind”, p.223, Bertrand Russell

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

  Frederic Harrison

  Cute, Simple, Men

  Frederic Harrison (1975). “Order and Progress”, p.150, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one.

  John Fowles

  Real, Two, Novelists

  6 Copy quote

• Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying them; that evasion does not make the unreal real or the real unreal; that it is better to correct your mistakes that to pretend they do not exist; and that the more conscious you are of facts bearing on your life and goals, the more wisely and effectively you can act.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Life, Real, Mistake

  20 Copy quote

• Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

  Federico Fellini

  Reality, Fire, Rose

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Without beauty a girl is unhappy because she has missed her chance to be loved. People do not jeer at her, they are not cruel to her, but it is as if she were invisible, no eyes follow her as she walks. People feel uncomfortable when they are with her. They find it easier to ignore her. A girl who is exceptionally beautiful, on the other hand, who has something which too far surpasses the customary seductive freshness of adolescence, appears somehow unreal. Great beauty seems invariably to portend some tragic fate.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Beautiful, Girl, Eye

  Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls of America and find, if you can, the Government. In the end you will be doomed to confer with the agent, as before.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Believe, America, Government

  Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley, Crispin Sartwell (2005). “Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist, Feminist, Genius”, p.173, SUNY Press

  35 Copy quote

  Show source