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Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal. -- Mary Baker Eddy
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition. -- Alvin Toffler
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. -- Hermann Hesse
There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false. -- Harold Pinter
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. -- June Jordan
Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting. -- Anne Lamott
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. -- Helen Schucman
The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is. -- John Lennon
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal. -- Ramakrishna
It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. -- Rufus Wainwright
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. -- Helena Blavatsky
I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it. -- Christopher Nolan
Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. -- Robert Anton Wilson
A lot of people in spiritual life use the awareness of difference, and the spiritual glorification of difference, as a justification to indulge in that which is ultimately unreal. -- Andrew Cohen
When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory. -- Bertrand Russell
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
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
The idea that nations should love one another, or that business concerns or marketing boards should love one another, or that a man in Portugal should love a man in Peru of whom he has never heard -it is absurd, unreal, dangerous. The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. -- E. M. Forster
When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal - an illusion - since it rests upon the paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one. -- Ramana Maharshi
Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended -- T. S. Eliot
Unreal. I'm feeling nostalgic for something that happened less than twenty-four hours ago. This has got to be a record. -- Barry Lyga
I feel ghostly unreal until I become somebody else again on the screen. -- Peter Sellers
It's time to bury the unreal, failed 'realism' of those who have long thought that dictators brought stability. -- Elliott Abrams
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal. -- David Lynch
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
People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. -- Andy Warhol
I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means of painting. -- Max Beckmann
New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors. -- Wallace Stevens
There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable. -- Jermaine Jackson
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. -- Janet Frame
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.' -- Ralph Lauren
To me, if you're going to talk about funk, you have to go back to George Clinton and Bernie Worrell. Those guys are the giants. I've played with Bernie, and it was unreal. He's the master. -- Les Claypool
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate. -- C. S. Lewis
I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate. -- Richard Rohr
It's not about how much movement you do, how much interaction there is, it just reeks of credibility if it's real. If it's contrived, it seems to work for a while for the people who can't filter out the real and unreal. -- Fred Durst
It's really irritating when you open a book, and 10 pages into it you know that the hero you met on page one or two is gonna come through unscathed, because he's the hero. This is completely unreal, and I don't like it. -- George R. R. Martin
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles, wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. -- Chuck Palahniuk
When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery. -- Antonio Munoz Molina
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they. -- Sonia Sotomayor
Happy is the man who knows how to distinguish the real from the unreal, the eternal from the transient and the good from the pleasant by his discrimination and wisdom. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
There is nothing as unreal as life -- Jeffrey Lee Pierce
I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal. -- Tom Holland
[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal -- Megan Hilty
The real does not die, the unreal never lived. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
The kid was so handsome, he almost looked unreal. -- Ilona Andrews
The more real you get, the more unreal things get. -- Tyga
Whatever instrument I play, I always try to keep it unreal. -- Rob Schwimmer
To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies. -- Swami Vivekananda
Work on what is real rather than worry about what is unreal. -- Elizabeth George
Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow -- Munia Khan
Old age is like an opium dream. Nothing seems real except the unreal. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Once you are real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always. -- Margery Williams
Metaphor creates a new reality from which the original appears to be unreal. -- Wallace Stevens
and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it? -- James Patterson
The real in me longs for peace. The unreal in me longs for power. -- Sri Chinmoy
I think there's more real in the unreal than there is in the real. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
'Stay with it' was our coach's motto. That's what we did. This is unreal! -- Andre Iguodala
The child intuitively comprehends that although these stories are unreal, they are not untrue ... -- Bruno Bettelheim
I gave to pink, the nerve of the red, a neon pink, an unreal pink. -- Elsa Schiaparelli
No matter how much you plan for it, the real thing seems curiously, well, unreal. -- Gregory Benford
All novelists should live in two different worlds: a real one and an unreal one. -- John Fowles
Everything became quite unreal finally and it seemed as though nothing could have any consequences. -- Ernest Hemingway
Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away? -- e. e. cummings
The world is changing every moment, and is therefore unreal. It has non permanent existence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal. -- Christopher Plummer
Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want. -- Lillian Hellman
We miss the real by lack of attention, and create the unreal by excess of imagination. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing. -- Byron Katie
It sounds almost unreal, but I was born and raised on old castlegrounds - Kenmure Castle. -- Sam Heughan
failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field. -- Lillian Hellman
Men of broader intellect know that there is no sharp distinction betwixt the real and the unreal -- H. P. Lovecraft
It's just unreal, I'm shocked myself. I've played good matches here, but never really almost destroyed somebody. -- Roger Federer
Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it. -- Emile M. Cioran
We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal. -- Rupert Spira
Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal. -- Maxwell Bodenheim
Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed. -- Steve Vai
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. -- Roger Scruton
I look in the mirror. There's me. What's in the mirror is not real. So am I unreal? -- Derek Walcott
Twitter fascinates me because it's real. It feels kind of unreal, but it makes very real things happen. -- Amanda Palmer
We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal. -- Peter Kreeft
To be truthful, I think golfers are overpaid. It's unreal, and I have trouble dealing with the guilt sometimes. -- Colin Montgomerie
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal. -- Pearl S. Buck
In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. -- Joan Armatrading
A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side. -- Felix Morley
Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next. -- Richard Branson
To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical. -- Vine Deloria Jr.
This accidentalmeeting of possibilitiescalls itself I.I ask: what am I doing here?And, at once, this Ibecomes unreal. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Arabs are a complete abstraction in the propaganda world and all the death and destruction is completely unreal to Americans. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. -- Simon Raven
When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant. -- William Monahan
Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do. -- Michael Ende
No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal. -- Thomas Ligotti
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself. -- Helena Blavatsky
Quote: "To put it another way, by viewing it through an unreal lens, the world looks more real." - Haruki Murakami -- Jeff Vandermeer
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad -- Claude Monet
The fact that an icon would even utter my name or have any idea of who I am is absolutely unreal. -- Ashley Wagner
The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so. -- Mignon McLaughlin
We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives. -- Stephen King
I'm even flattered! It's what success is like. I'm happy I seem unreal to them, it means I'm doing a good job, -- Valeria Lukyanova
'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. -- Wilhelm Reich
Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. -- Wilhelm Reich
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
Why do people complain when your crabby but the moment there crabby you tell them to stop moaning they moan so fuckin unreal -- emma mckenzie
We imagine that waking-life is real and that dream-life is unreal, but there does not seem to be any evidence for this belief. -- Wei Wu Wei
I play Texas Hold'em on my Blackberry. I have amassed a fortune on that. I have almost 30 million dollars from playing. It is unreal. -- Chris Cornell
It is easier to argue that something nobody believes in actually exists than it is to argue that something everybody believes in is unreal. -- Samuel R. Delany
I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write. -- Hilary Liftin
We perceive, as from a great distance, a thousand years filled with dim shapes of men moving blindly, performing strangely, in an unreal shadowy world. -- Carl Lotus Becker
My parents lived, breathed, ate and slept theatre. Emotions were right on the surface. Growing up, the unreal had as much importance as the real. -- Megan Follows
She hated the love she had been given, because it had asked for nothing in return, which was absurd, unreal, against the laws of nature -- Paulo Coelho
What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. -- Amedeo Modigliani
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal. -- Waris Dirie
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
The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences. -- Siri Hustvedt

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