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Quotes About Surreal

The whole room is as black as pitch. In fact, I'm not at all sure that it is a room. Something suggests to me now that I'm on board ship; I might be floating adrift on some tranquil sea. And yet there's no sound, no motion, nothing to indicate either sea or land. Like a ghost train my life streams through my head, and I don't know which point of the compass I'm facing. How dark it is. The moon must have stolen away secretly.
~ Anna Kavan
The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
~ Anne Sexton
The bed itself is an operating table where my dreams slice me to pieces.
~ Anne Sexton
and only as she dreamt of the yellow hair did moonlight sift into her mouth.
~ Anne Sexton
And again there was the long road, as straight as an arrow through the shimmering wall of fog, and the sudden apparition of the solitary columns of Persepolis on the terrace that seemed surreally suspended high above the plains
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
When you're with another actor who's also been through five hours of prosthetic makeup, and you're eating another person's neck, and fake blood is being spurted out at you for two minutes, it's incredibly fun, and you're in character for that time. You can't really believe that that's your job.
~ Alexandra Daddario
With everyone lounging around, eating sleeping, sunning, pooping, it looks like some weird combat version of an outdoor rock festival.
~ Evan Wright
Upon it floated swans like boats and boats like swans, both lost in the nothingness of the heartless beauty.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play out their silent show to my inattention.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Am s? m? pierd în cea??,ca un str?in de toate,insul? uman? detaÅŸat? de visul m?rii,nav? înc?rcat? inutil cu prea mult? fiin?? ÅŸi prea mult din tot restul.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Everything is absurd.
~ Fernando Pessoa
El sueño es la peor de las cocaínas, por ser la más natural de todas.
~ Fernando Pessoa
72] 381 Down the steps of my dreams and my weariness, descend from your unreality, descend and be my substitute for the world.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
~ Dashiell Hammett
I'll tell you, being on set on 'Harry Potter' was nerve-wracking. It was surreal to be in a room with those three kids, all of whom know exactly what they're doing.
~ Ciaran Hinds
I always say 'Knocked Up' opened the doors, and 'Hangover' just burst it wide open. To this day, it's still surreal. And my wife's a doctor. All our friends are doctors - our close friends. And it's just that I have an odd job now. I think I'm like a doctor who had a detour, and I just have an odd job.
~ Ken Jeong
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
~ Brad Holland
I think poetry, rather than suffering, is more and more sufficient to the needs of our society. It's one of the reasons so much of it is, for want of a better term, 'surreal.'
~ Paul Muldoon
among them the nameless girl, with her guillotine mouth, strolling through the past and the future like a movie face.
~ Roberto Bolano
After that moment, reality for Pelletier and Espinoza seemed to tear like paper scenery, and when it was stripped away it revealed what was behind it: a smoking landscape, as if someone, an angel, maybe, was tending hundreds of barbecue pits for a crowd of invisible beings.
~ Roberto Bolano
No podía creer que fuera de noche todavía, que esa incandescencia fuera la noche. Daba lo mismo cerrar los ojos o mantenerlos abiertos.
~ Roberto Bolano
Die in your dreams, wake up insane.
~ Robin Hobb
And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Ilka's triangle of pizza behaved like Dali's watch and kept folding away from her mouth.
~ Lore Segal