Quotes About Surreal

My thoughts floated back to the boat sailing on the surreal lake that the monsoon had made of the street.

At first it was a bit surreal playing in the Premier League at 16, coming up against world-class players, because it had always been my dream. But quickly, it becomes second nature to you.

When I did 'The Tonight Show' and Jay Leno was still there, he was very nice but it was surreal. It's like you can't believe you're standing there talking to that person. If you've seen them in a lot of movies or on TV you feel like you know them, just like my fans feel like they know me.

I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So, the first time I was nominated for 'Spring Awakening,' it felt like a surreal dream: it was every childhood dream I had come true. It felt like a fairy tale.

Er wuenschte sich eine Falltuer herbei, durch die er nach unten stuerzen duerfte - fort von der unwirklichen Realitaet in ein schwarzes Loch des Vergessens. Doch so etwas geschah nur in Traeumen.

Do you know the feeling you get when you are awakened in the middle of a dream? The dream story is still real and full of color, but the waking world is rushing back into your mind. And for a moment both worlds are true, and you cannot quite tell them apart.

As the seconds tick down, Belgium are literally playing in time that doesn't exist.

Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.

The hours wear on, while the surreal atmosphere of the asylum does not wear off.

I am married but I've yet to meet my wife, and she is dead. Such is the life of a time-traveler... complicated, that is.

My interpreter Sayuri is folding a piece of notebook paper. She is at step 21, where the crane's body is inflated. The directions show a tiny puff besides an arrow pointing at the bird. It makes sense if you already know what to do. Otherwise, it's wonderfully surreal: Put a cloud inside a bird.

Mi sembrava un sogno, però chiaro e oppressivo come la realtà.

It's like the television equivalent of one of those cymbal-banging monkey toys being duct-taped to your forehead.

I felt as if I had woken up to find a blue sun in the yellow sky, or heard animals speaking like men.

It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow, which is supposed to be dyed to match God-knows-what, on my feet; making promises over the telephone about things I will do at a precise hour next year.

Dad-a-jum, dad-a-jiggers, goddam lobsters bit off your fingers, King said, and actually laughed.

In perfect unison, all the townspeople vomited gouts of blood onto the pavement.

Gagarin had just flown around the world. Now he needed a horse and cart. To those familiar with only slightly later TV footage of NASA spacecraft returning to earth [...] Gagarin's return is in a league of its own, an exercise of the surreal with a uniquely Russian twist.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.

Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.

Supuso, entonces, que ya había muerto, y que iba subiendo entre tanta y tanta estrella, subiendo muy suavemente camino directo del cielo. Después cerró los ojos. Estaba tan agotada que no se dio cuenta de que sólo en ese instante moría, y no antes, cuando creyó ver a todas las constelaciones rodeándola.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

Nejsem z reality zrovna na vÄ›tvi, ale je to poÃ…â"¢ád jediné místo, kde dostanete sluÅ¡né jídlo. (Groucho Marx)

It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of surreal image you'd expect to see on the cover of an old issue of Heavy Metal or Dragon magazine.