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Quotes About Surreal

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
~ Jack Kerouac
L'universo intero era pazzo ed obliquo ed estremamente bizzarro.
~ Jack Kerouac
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
~ Jack Kerouac
And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea what I saw, all I know is that I left the theater floating six feet above the ground.
~ Jacques Rivette
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite American TV show.
~ Rebecca Hall
'Twin Peaks' is my favorite show of all time.
~ James Roday
I compose most of my tweets with care, as if they were aphorisms - they are not usually dashed-off. Sometimes I'm surprised by the high, poetic quality of Twitter - it lends itself to a surreal sort of self-expression.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my characters would actually sound. It was a very surreal thing to see come to life digitally!
~ Neal Shusterman
having 'weakly disturbing' images of waffles with pasta on top
~ Tao Lin
We all keep spare sets of full lungs in our homes, but when one is alone, the act of opening one's chest and replacing one's lungs can seem little better than a chore.
~ Ted Chiang
Specifically for 'Faults,' the three films I mention most as inspiration are 'Dogtooth,' 'Fargo' and 'Punch-Drunk Love.'
~ Riley Stearns
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
~ Robert Johnson
Ng Security Industries Semi-Autonomous Guard Unit #A-367 lives in a pleasant black-and-white Metaverse where porterhouse steaks grow on trees, dangling at head level from low branches, and blood-drenched Frisbees fly through the crisp, cool air for no reason at all, until you catch them.
~ Neal Stephenson
A long fall. Dinah had ceased to even think in terms of up and down. The concept of falling had become meaningless to her.
~ Neal Stephenson
I like absurdist aesthetics. There's something about dream logic that's really fascinating, how it interweaves with narrative.
~ Hiro Murai
The surreal howl wove its way through the cacophony of human voices, a bright, bloody thread in a tapestry of fear.
~ Christie Golden
During all this I never quite lost the surreal sense that I had become in some way a pro-government dissident and that of all the paradoxes of my little life this might have to register as the most acute one. ... For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Let me say right here, if I haven't made it clear, that I have seen as many pale, naked old-man parts in the last twenty-four hours to bruise my delicate psyche for a lifetime, so don't be surprised if you someday find me wandering the moors at midnight, a crazed look in my eye, babbling about albino Tater Tots nesting in Brillo pads and being pursued by sagging man ass, because that shit can happen when you've been traumatized.
~ Christopher Moore
Shoes off in the whale! And don't try and make a break for the anus.
~ Christopher Moore
So I am death Charlie said then turned to his daughter while buttering his toast. This is death toast sweety.
~ Christopher Moore
he shrieked and made as if to fling poo at the giant, but it had been eight days since any of us had eaten and he could birth no bum-babies for the flinging.
~ Christopher Moore
The little people parted and two of them carried a tray with the head of an animal Wiggley Charlie didn't recognize down an aisle. (It was the head of an opossum, but the o was silent, as often happens with the decapitated.)
~ Christopher Moore
La febbre aveva catapultato Tucker Case in un sogno nel quale veniva gettato in mezzo a grandi onde elastiche di demoni dalle ali di pipistrello - sbriciolato, soffocato, morso e graffiato - e là, nel caos, vedeva con la coda dell'occhio un foglietto rosa di ammorbidente, a riprova del fatto che lo avevavno sbattuto nel cestello di una lavatrice infernale.
~ Christopher Moore
He looked like he'd shown up at the sacrificial mass of the damned ready to fix the dishwasher.
~ Christopher Moore