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The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman
What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it. -- Morley Safer
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming. -- Al Gore
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality. -- Robert E. Howard
As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity. -- Ernst Toller
Reality and unreality have no clear distinction in our present circumstances. -- Grant Morrison
The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented. -- Byron Katie
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. -- Toni Cade Bambara
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it -- Bill Sienkiewicz
I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd. -- Virginia Woolf
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. -- Jean Cocteau
My ideas were confused. In a peculiar way, the unreality of the outer world appeared to be an extension of my own disturbed state of mind. -- Anna Kavan
When we realise our oneness with our RULER, then the matter shall have no longer power over us, and we shall see it as the unreality it is. -- Annie Besant
The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is. -- Gertrude Stein
They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. -- William Faulkner
For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows. -- Adolfo Bioy Casares
The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge. -- Oswald Chambers
I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality. I was told that this man [mom's lover] was not my mother's lover - when he was. I was told he was there as a male babysitter for my brother so that he would learn sports and other manly things. -- Carly Simon
In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist. -- Thomas Merton
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water. -- Eugene Ionesco
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. -- Toni Cade Bambara
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it. -- Bill Sienkiewicz
The sitcom's traditional role has been to comfort the viewer who feels burdened by the unreality of American expectations. -- Lee Siegel
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. -- Charlie Pierce
Why do photographers photograph? To make unreality visible. -- Bill Jay
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality. -- Peter Greenaway
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality." -- Oswald Chambers
The deadliest Pharisaism today is not hypocrisy, but unconscious unreality. -- Oswald Chambers
The leprosy of unreality disfigured every human creature in attendance. -- Charles Dickens
My work would have the impact of my unreality - my doubts... -- Joel-Peter Witkin
Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out, Showing the unreality of Time. -- Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton
In the United States of America, unfortunately we still live in a bubble of unreality. -- Al Gore
There will be a future. We believe in our unreality too strongly to give it up. -- Jeanette Winterson
No pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her. -- Scott Spencer
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. -- Amedeo Modigliani
What happens to the wide-eyed observer when the window between reality and unreality breaks and the glass begins to fly? -- Stephen King
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. -- Walter Russell
Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Man is the measure of all things, of the reality of those which are, and of the unreality of those which are not. -- Protagoras
I'm more convinced each day of the complete unreality of the material world and the supreme vitality of the invisible world of spirit. -- Paul Russo
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew. -- Margaret Mead
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Fake realism is the escapist literature of our time. And probably the ultimate escapist reading is that masterpiece of total unreality, the daily stock market report. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
We are insane. That is what sin is. Sanctity is identitical with sanity. It means living the truth, living in reality. Sin always substitutes unreality for reality. -- Peter Kreeft
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it. -- Albert Camus
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself. -- Paul Auster
You want to be free as the ego, but you need to be free FROM the ego. To be free from it is to understand its unreality. -- Mooji
Pure suffering has a consciousness, a tongue, a heart all its own and even the memory of it is but a pale unreality when compared with the actual experience. -- Mike Mason
There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality -- Matt Taibbi
I passed beyond the unreality of the thing represented, I entered crazily into the spectacle, into the image, taking into my arms what is dead, what is going to die... -- Roland Barthes
Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony. -- Rudolf Steiner
The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary. -- Madeline Claire Franklin
There is no greater disaster in the spiritual life than to be immersed in unreality, for life is maintained and nourished in us by our vital relation with realities outside and above us. -- Thomas Merton
I'm one of the school of people who don't do research of the reality of the thing or the unreality of the thing. In all the movies I've done, I've never done any research. -- Billy Connolly
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality. . . eventually only the core remains. -- Meredith L. Young-Sowers
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then. -- Virginia Woolf
The shows of the day, the dewy morning, the rainbow, mountains, orchards in blossom, stars, moonlight, shadows in still water, andthe like, if too eagerly hunted, become shows merely, and mock us with their unreality. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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