Unreal – Quotes

Everything looked and sounded

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted – to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Eugene O’Neill

Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the real from the unreal, to give visions body, to penetrate into unknown transparencies. Erwin Blumenfeld

The music enchanted the

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… It made everything spacious and colourful, the dark stream of life seemed pulsing in it; there were no burdens any more, no limits; there existed only glory and melody and … Read more

To our real, naked

To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of … Read more

The philosophy of Atheism

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation. Emma Goldman

Once you see that

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can’t see why you should bother to prove it. Emile M. Cioran

I gave to pink,

I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. Elsa Schiaparelli

I\\’ve always thought of

I’ve always thought of my writing as a spiritual practice. But I think that fiction is the most supernatural kind of writing that you can do – because of the ways that the real and the unreal weave together to create something that feels more true than anything. Elizabeth Gilbert

I think there\\’s more

I think there’s more real in the unreal than there is in the real. Elizabeth Gilbert

Work on what is

Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal. Elizabeth George