Quotes having the keyword Unreal
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.
by Max Beckmann (Artist, German , born in 1884) keywords: abstract, already, each, enough, hardly, make, means, need, object, only, painting, real, things , unreal Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
by H. P. Blavatsky (Philosopher, Russian , born in 1831) keywords: beings, conscious, enough, itself, real, universe, unreal, which , yet 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.
by Andrew Cohen (Writer, American , born in 1955) keywords: awareness, difference, glorification, indulge, justification, life, lot, spiritual, ultimately, unreal, use , which 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.
by Janet Frame (Novelist, New Zealander , born in 1924) keywords: across, border, cathedrals, expedition, factories, going, hours, imagination, land, merely, novel, shopping, spent, streets, unreal, writing , years 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.
by Hermann Hesse (Novelist, German , born in 1877) keywords: allow, assert, contained, except, images, itself, life, live, many, never, outside, reality, take, them, unreal, us, why, within , world The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Writer, American , born in 1809) keywords: advice, apt, best, books, elders, hundred, list, men, unreal, very , young Never the less, it is no light thing to enter into a profession absolutely foreign and alien to the people among which one's lot is cast; a profession which seems as dim and faraway and unreal as the shores of Europe.
by Robert E. Howard (Writer, American , born in 1906) keywords: absolutely, alien, among, cast, dim, enter, europe, faraway, foreign, into, less, light, lot, never, profession, seems, shores, thing, unreal , which 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.
by June Jordan (Writer, American , born in 1936) keywords: barbarous, brother, choke, down, habits, holy, into, language, law, lay, lying, natural, our, political, schools, self, sister, speech, supposed, unreal, weird, white, why , writing 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.
by Rosamund Pike (Actor, British , born in 1979) keywords: action, am, being, explosions, film, game, going, head, incredibly, just, mean, over, something, support, thing, unreal, video, violence, whether , whole 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.
by Harold Pinter (Dramatist, English , born in 1930) keywords: between, both, distinctions, either, false, hard, necessarily, nor, real, thing, true , unreal Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal.
by Simon Raven (Novelist, English , born in 1927) keywords: behave, circumstances, contrived, gentlemen, manifestly, now, only, such, tolerated , unreal As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.
by Susan Sontag (Author, American , born in 1933) keywords: also, give, help, imaginary, insecure, past, photographs, possession, space, take, unreal , which 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.
by Wallace Stevens (Poet, American , born in 1879) keywords: antagonistic, crowd, else, everybody, fascinating, field, foolish, horribly, interests, looking, mirrors, new, tireless, undoubtedly, unreal, walking , york One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
by Alvin Toffler (Author, American , born in 1928) topics: Society keywords: ability, definition, definitions, need, new, real, sanity, soon, tell , unreal You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.
by Tracey Ullman (Comedian, British , born in 1959) keywords: become, becomes, being, came, far, listen, removed, say, star, unreal, voice , world 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.
by Robert Anton Wilson (Writer, American , born in 1932) keywords: between, border, each, fixed, fought, gangs, just, last, marks, other, place, real, rival, standstill, unreal , where
