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Quotes About Surreal

A man walks into a bar and says: Take my wife–please. But you take him instead.
~ Richard Siken
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.
~ Richelle Mead
Oh, God. I'm trapped in the fucking Chronicles of Narnia." "I'm sure that would be an amusing reference, if I understood it.
~ Richelle Mead
she seemed too beautiful and too ethereal to be part of this dreary landscape.
~ Richelle Mead
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
We're asleep yet not asleep. We are thinking a strange thought, Thinking we are to be slaughtered, That cranberry branches are burning, That cauldrons are steaming, That steel knives are being sharpened.
~ Robert Chandler
I don't go to school, I don't have parents, I came from the sea to be your husband.
~ Kevin Canty
There will be no floating waway. There will be no other reality tonight.
~ Khaled Hosseini
Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.
~ Khaled Hosseini
I was standing in a line, balanced between reality and the ever-after. I could go either way. I wasn't his yet. "One day a week," I said, knees wobbling. "I give you Newt's mark, you give me my name," Al said, then wiggled his fingers as if he needed me to take them to finish the deal. I reached for it, and at the last moment, Al's glove melted away, and I found myself gripping his hand.
~ Kim Harrison
Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. My life was so screwed up.
~ Kim Harrison
Hikes in the winter forest, so surreal—Emerson knew about them. He had seen the woods at twilight. "Never was a more brilliant show of colored landscape than yesterday afternoon; incredibly excellent topaz and ruby at four o'clock; cold and shabby at six.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
~ Damien Chazelle
Of course. Please, sit. Do you want a cupcake?" The entire evening suddenly felt surreal. I was drunk off my ass, offering a djinn a cupcake.
~ Yasmine Galenorn
Picture this: a human finger, cut from its body, its hand...a separate human finger, running hopping along, all hunched over, on a glass sidewalk. I am that finger.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Now I no longer live in our clear, rational world; I live in the ancient nightmare world, the world of square roots of minus one.
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Sim, ele dormia, acordava, e as vezes, até fazia suas refeições ali dentro. Nesse estranho quarto sem janelas, esse quarto onde os ventos jamais sopravam e as árvores jamais rumorejavam, um quarto com ares de caixão, a tumba onde ele foi enterrado vivo. Ele escolhera viver em um caixão mesmo antes de ter sido assassinado. Um quarto de prazeres e de morte, envolto no perfume duradouro de mulher e o odor de seu próprio corpo.
~ Yukio Mishima
I will steal your dreams tonight. Dark
~ Yukiru Sugisaki
You are so high in the tree. If you jump you will live a full life while falling. You will get married to a hummingbird and raise beautiful part- hummingbirds. You will die of cancer in mid-air. I will not lie. It will be painful. You are a brave little boy or girl.
~ Zachary Schomburg
She wanted to escape from a reality that was so rational it was a little bit mad.
~ Deborah Levy
Reality, it is true, has a lot to answer for, so on the whole we make sure we don't live there. We cannot control reality, but we can control our fantasies. Except our fantasies don't exist; so we're not really controlling anything at all. But the illusion of control is deeply reassuring. And the price we pay for this reassurance is unimaginable.
~ Declan Donnellan
This motion is something out of Alice in Wonderland !
~ Dennis L. Breo
I'm sorry, I don't know what any of you want, or why guns and knives are being waved around, or why the girl has just been taken hostage, but everyone seems to be acting like having a TALKING SKELETON in the room is perfectly normal. And you, where are your eyes? How can you see? How come the only people with eyes in this room are me and her?
~ Derek Landy
I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into a river.
~ Derek Landy