Quotes with unreal

  • The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.

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  • Andrew Cohen 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
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Bernstein Increasingly, the picture of our society as rendered in our media is illusionary and delusionary: disfigured, unreal, out of touch with reality, disconnected from the true context of our life. It is disfigured by celebrity, by celebrity worship, by gossip, by sensationalism, by denial of our societies.
    Carl Bernstein
    American investigative journalist and author (1944 - )
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  • Lilian Hellmann Maybe money is unreal for most of us, easier to give away than things we want.
    An unfinished woman (1969)
    Lilian Hellmann
    American playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1984)
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  • Alvin Toffler One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
    Alvin Toffler
    American writer, futurist, and businessman (1928 - 2016)
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  • Andy Warhol 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 so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watching television - you don't feel anything.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Maxwell Bodenheim Reality is a formless lure,
    And only when we know this
    Do we dare to be unreal.
    Advice To a Pool
    Maxwell Bodenheim
    American writer (1892 - 1954)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes 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
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Gertrude Stein 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
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Unreal is action without discipline, charity without sympathy, ritual without devotion.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Janet Frame 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
    New Zealand author (1924 - 2004)
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