Unreal World Quotes:

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

- John Lennon

topic: Music, Real, Unreal, Real You, Unreal World

The more real you get, the more unreal things get.

- Tyga

topic: Real, Real You, Unreal, Unreal World

[The Yippie demonstrations] were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society ... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason ... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

- Phil Ochs

source: "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

topic: Couple, Reality, Years, Guidelines, Unreal World

The Yippie demonstrations were merely an attack of mental disobedience on an obediently insane society... and if you feel you have been living in an unreal world for the last couple of years, it is particularly because this power structure has refused to listen to reason... Step outside the guidelines of the official umpires and make your own rules and your own reality.

- Phil Ochs

source: "An American Ordeal: The Antiwar Movement of the Vietnam Period". Book by Charles DeBenedetti, 1990.

topic: Couple, Reality, Years, Real World, Guidelines

The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.

- Emma Goldman

topic: Atheist, Philosophy, Real, Regulators, Unreal World

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

- Hermann Hesse

source: "Nobel Prize Library: Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse".

topic: Reality, Demian, Unreal World

One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.

- Alvin Toffler

source: "Diving Into the Bitstream: Information Technology Meets Society in a Digital World". Book by M. Barry Dumas, p. 231, 2012.

topic: Real, Anger, Society, Unreal World

Being Doctor Who, I used to look at the clock and know at half past four we were going to stop rehearsing - and that was a sad moment for me because I wanted to stay in this beautiful, unreal world.

- Tom Baker

topic: Beautiful, Past, Doctors, Rehearsing, Sad Moments

Really unreal world, will you perhaps do the breathing for me while I am away?

- e. e. cummings

topic: Breathing, World, Unreal, Unreal World

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

- W. Somerset Maugham

topic: Disappointment, Real, Reading, Bitter Disappointment, Unreal World

Reverie is commonly classified among the phenomena of psychic detente. It is lived out in a relaxed time which has no linking force. Since it functions with inattention, it is often without memory. It is a flight from out of the real that does not always find a consistent unreal world.

- Gaston Bachelard

topic: Time, Memories, Real, Detente, Inattention

Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.

- Kathryn Lasky

source: Kathryn Lasky (2013). “The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769”, p.182, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Dolls, World, Intention, Real World, Unreal World

We are a nation of physical animals who have forgotten how much we enjoy being that. We are cushioned by this kind of make-believe, unreal world and have no idea what we can survive because we are never challenged or tested.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Make Believe, Unreal World

We human beings instinctively regard the seen world as the "real" world and the unseen world as the "unreal" world, but the Bible calls for almost the opposite.

- Philip Yancey

source: Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.199, Harper Collins

topic: Faith, Religious, Real, Unreal World