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Quotes About Surreal

Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time.
~ Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.)
Once upon a time, a girl went to see a monster menagerie where all the exhibits were dead.
~ Laini Taylor
You should have seen them, Thyon said. "It was surreal." As an afterthought, he added, "Though I can't believe none of them rode the dragon." "I know!" said Ruza. "What was Azareen's thinking, choosing a winged horse when she could have a dragon?" "I don't think she was really focused on which creature was best," said Tzara. "You shouldn't have to focus on it," said Ruza. "It's instinctive. Dragons are always best.
~ Laini Taylor
It wasn't simply a question of parlors and tea trays - though there was that, too. If she were coming in reality he would be limited by reality. But dreams were a different matter. He was Strange the Dreamer. This was his realm, and there were no limits here.
~ Laini Taylor
Just then, lit only by the flicker of his wings, the sight of him was so… right, somehow. He was right. It made no sense at all, but the feeling flooded through Karou, and whatever it was, it was as sweet as a patch of sun on a glossy floor and, like a cat, she just wanted to curl up in it.
~ Laini Taylor
am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.
~ Laini Taylor
De su hombro colgaba un portafolio de dibujo y sobre su pelo - largo, suelto y de color azul eléctrico - se había formado un encaje de copos de nieve.
~ Laini Taylor
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
~ Cassandra Peterson
Everyone cried when the creature first spoke to them. No, not cried. They wept. They wept like the cavemen of Lascaux suddenly transported into the Sistine Chapel just in time for a live performance of Phantom of the Opera as sung by Tolkien's elves.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
All the hair dye diluted itself into the sea a long time ago and I hope the jellyfish enjoyed their time as platinum blondes, I really and honestly do.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is," Decibel said with total delight.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It was only a dream. Sometimes they say that, at the end of stories, in the land where Milo was born. And then I woke up—it was only a dream. Stories here do not end like that. I cannot wake up. I do not sleep.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Life is but a dream for the dead.
~ Gerard Way
Il Destino, che è un regista alla ricerca di facili effetti, piuttosto di sacrificare una battuta sicura, preferisce sacrificare la logica degli eventi. Per questo il nostro pianeta è squinternato ma divertente.
~ Giovannino Guareschi
I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
~ Author Unknown
Then he dozed off to sleep and to dream dreams that for madness and audacity rivaled those of poppy-eaters.
~ Jack London
Together they went to the chamber and performed a number of erotic exercises, after which Cugel collapsed into a sleep of utter exhaustion
~ Jack Vance
I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had no meaning.
~ James Baldwin
I remember that life in that room seemed to be occurring beneath the sea. Time flowed past indifferently above us; hours and days had no meaning.
~ James Baldwin
For a child, it's not so much scary, it's surreal; there was a lot of fighting in my great-grandmother's house; you'd go there and then someone would meet up and there'd be a fight; I've seen my uncles fight in the street, I've seen my grandmother fight in the street, it becomes normal.
~ Tricky
A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have always dominated their films. It's a way to shock the senses, to make them open themselves.
~ Nicolas Winding Refn
I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me? A publicist who's been there eight times. Getting there as a filmmaker was a completely surreal, different, unexpected experience.
~ Ava DuVernay
The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
~ Jamais Cascio
Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?
~ James Joyce, Finnegans Wake