Quotes About Surreal

The scene had been a nightmare, one of those insane nightmares where the most normal objects become infinitely menacing.

She would have to ride the nightmare in her sleep. Only that would keep it material, or enable her to dematerialize with it.

Meanwhile the other monsters were busy. The winged horse was rearing and stomping; the rabbits were gnawing into legs; the double-headed eagle was plucking eyeballs neatly from their sockets and swallowing them whole, the satyr was— Dor stared for a moment in amazement, then forced his gaze away. He had never imagined killing men that way.

The Gedalists were nearly run down by a Dodge truck on which two grand pianos had been loaded: two uniformed officers were playing, in unison, with gravity and commitment, the 1812 Overture of Tchaikowsky, while the driver wove among the wagons with brusque swerves, pressing the siren at full volume, heedless of the pedestrians in his way.

spoons used to scoop the living eye from the skull.

Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare, which he painted in 1781.

Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal.

Even in sleep, dreamily I leap from the top stair to grab the arrow about to pierce my father's chest. I saved him I think for a moment then the feeling, no, that isn't so.

Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle.

He'd come to war to see abstractions become realities. Instead he'd seen the reverse. Everything was abstract now.

Lizards frolicked in the flames of a bonfire; two lonely fish swam toward each other under the sea; a lion devoured the sun. An eagle flying high in the air was incongruously chained to a toad crawling on the ground. A wolf and dog battled in the middle of a deserted town. A slithering serpent entwined itself around a female corpse lying in an open grave. Another serpent lay nailed to a cross, while other serpents and dragons chased their own tails in never ending circles.

Cinema is a great medium for creating a dream world and entering into it.

I love 'Pop Team Epic,' which is really trippy.

And at the bottom of each of those eyes I lived, or rather another me lived, one of the images of me, and it encountered the image of her, the most faithful image of her, in that beyond which opens, past the semiliquid sphere of the irises, in the darkness of the pupils, the mirrored hall of the retinas, in our true element which extends without shores, without boundaries.

Jim knew that he was awake and asleep at the same time, dreaming of the war and yet dreamed of by the war.

I jump to my feet in this dream within a dream. Although I am quite dry, I discover that the trees of the forest in which I have slept stand rooted in water. Beyond them, at the forest's edge, stretches a tarn. From the steely face of the tarn rises a mist, and there, where the mist swirls thickest, shimmering like a pale column risen from its depths, dripping tarn water and rotted rose petals, stands Gunther.

This morning I met a woman with a golden nose. She was riding in a Cadillac with a monkey in her arms. Her driver stopped and she asked me, "Are you Fellini?" With this metallic voice she continued, "Why is it that in your movies, there is not even one normal person?" —FEDERICO FELLINI

Dali dreamed of Hitler as a white-skinned girl- impossibly pale, luminous and lifeless as the moon.

I love being a part of Aqua Teen.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

Still she felt like a mermaid following a unicorn into the woods, all the while knowing that at some point, she would have to return to the sea.

I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them lose the will, and all die. O the embarrassment.

Now I know she couldn't ambush a panda bear on Quaaludes.

That one day you wake up and you realize just how surreal everything going on in your life is, and all you can do is laugh about it-- which goes to show just how ridiculous and complicated life can be.