#unreal

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. (“The Disinheritors”) ↗

— Richard Matheson

#imagination #rationality #reality #unreality #imagination

Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. ↗

— Simon Raven

#circumstances #contrived #gentlemen #manifestly #now

Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#enough #expectations #general #going #holidays

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#certain level #deal #establish #going #level

Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like sensations. It would not have surprised them to feel a summer breeze on their faces, or to see the lights among the boughs reduplicated in the arch of a starry sky. The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#solitude #unreality #dreams

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#assert #contained #except #images #itself

Everything in life seems unreal. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#unreal #life

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#rationality #reality #science #ufos #unreality

In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. ↗

— Joan Armatrading

#just #outside #same #step #then

You have to be a little unreal to be in this business. ↗

— Kim Basinger

#little #unreal #you