Quotes About Surreal

one half of his face drooping lower than the other, as if it had melted like a Dalí watch.

What he did not know then is that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

First, strangely, the owls had died. At the time it had seemed almost funny, the fat, fluffy white birds lying here and there, in yards and on streets; coming out no earlier than twilight as they had while alive the owls escaped notice.

Something looked at him. With its mouth. It had eaten most of its own eyes.

it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

Then she felt dizzy. This was all impossible, and it was all happening.

When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.

You had to be there to see what it looked like. They live in a dream, and we live in a nightmare.

I'm so drunk my head doesn't even need my neck.

Yet with Barack Obama, America has been thrust into an entirely new and almost surreal realm. For no other occupant of the White House, however controversial or unpopular, has ever inspired such a widespread conviction among the populace that a sitting American president and wartime commander in chief actually hates the very nation he was elected to lead and is sympathetic toward her enemies.

It feels like we've stepped outside of time. Even though there is no such place.

I wasn't as good at semi-normal conversation as I was at ones that were written down, or adrenalized in a surreal moment.

it doesn't feel good or bad just a buzz of different.

Eraserhead is my most spiritual movie. No one understands when I say that, but it is.

Look," I'll say to Jesus, "enough is enough. I suggest we nail some boards together and have ourselves an old-fashioned crucifixion.

Es verdad que hay muertos que están vivos? Eso es bien sabido. Bailan, cantan, hacen el amor. ¿Y se matan unos a otros? Eso nunca.

Living is abnormal.

El cloroformo dilata el pecho a la primera inspiración; la segunda, inunda la boca de saliva; las extremidades hormiguean, a la tercera; a la cuarta, los labios, a la par de las ideas, se hinchan, y luego pasan cosas singulares.

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

Regarde ce lit c'est le bord de l'autre monde dit la putain saoule

So, drenched and downing champagne, I danced a rather demented waltz-cum-jig with a young bride I'd never met before in a place I'd never been before at 4.30 in the morning. And you know the weirdest thing of all? It all seemed so perfectly natural.

O, if only, instead of being a hell, the universe had been an immense celestial anus!

Death is one dream out of another flowing.