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Quotes About Surreal

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.
~ Judith Rascoe
You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?
~ Ned Vizzini
Connor-Dominguez said when they entered the building immediately after the fire, they felt like they'd died and gone to see if Dante knew what he was writing about.
~ Susan Orlean
Connor said when they entered the building immediately after the fire, they felt like they'd died and gone to see if Dante knew what he was writing about.
~ Susan Orlean
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects -- making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
~ Susan Sontag
Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen here. No stranger would let it be if we met up At midnight in the hanging tree.
~ Suzanne Collins
hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the
~ Suzanne Collins
I'm having a hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the rose, for the first time the descent makes me feel safer.
~ Suzanne Collins
Are you, are you Coming to the tree Where I told you to run, so we'd both be free. Strange things did happen here No stranger would it be If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.
~ Suzanne Collins
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
~ Philip K. Dick
If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I amunder their lids, growing black.
~ Bill Knott
In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone.
~ Rachel Thompson, Broken Pieces
There is nothing better, than sleeping and dreaming beside you —It's like having a dream within a dream.
~ Timothy Joshua
I danced as he twirled in and out of consciousness, and there we were, one in love and the other astray.
~ Dominic Riccitello
Whatever may need to be bailed out should be nationalized; whatever does not need a bailout should be free, small, and risk-bearing. We got ourselves into the worst of capitalism and socialism. In France, in the 1980s, the socialists took over the banks. In the United States in the 2000s, the banks took over the government. This is surreal.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Immortality has turned us all into cartoons
~ Neal Shusterman
No renuncies jamás a tus sueños, los cuerdos nada saben del sueño admirable de un loco!»
~ Charles Baudelaire
Today I felt pass over me / A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Imp froze as he rounded the corner onto Regent Street, and saw four elven warriors shackling a Santa to a stainless-steel cross outside Hamleys Toy Shop.
~ Charles Stross
Non-euclidian sofa
~ Charles Stross
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.
~ Tim Burton
She saw an alien bearing down and clasping her to its chest, that long curved head raising, mouth sprouting the silvery, deadly teeth that would smash through her skull and free her at last from her nightmares.
~ Tim Lebbon
What seems to happen becomes its own happening and has to be told that way. […]And afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always that surreal seemingness, which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed.
~ Tim O'Brien
Like when Ted Lavender went too heavy on the tranquilizers. 'How's the war today?' somebody would say, and Ted Lavender would give a soft, spacey smile and say, 'Mellow, man. We got ourselves a nice mellow war today.
~ Tim O'Brien