Quotes about Surreal

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My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglassWith the waist of a — André Breton, Poems of André Breton: A Bilingual Anthology
This place has only three exits, sir: Madness, and Death. — René Daumal, A Night of Serious Drinking
Il faut que l’homme s’évade de cette lice ridicule qu’on lui a faite: le prétendu réel actuel avec la perspective d’un r — André Breton
The world you are in –Is the true hell.The journey to Truth itselfIs what quickens the heart to become lighter.The light — Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Is happiness a sort of blissful state of mind or just a kind of surreal propensity? It may be hard to recognize its very — Erik Pevernagie
Once she called to invite me to a concert of Liszt piano concertos. The soloist was a famous South American pianist. I c — Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing. — André Breton, The Magnetic Fields
Cine n-ar dori să moară visând că moare? — Saşa Pană, Prozopoeme
Happiness is not found in serenity, tranquility or surrealism. It is found in harmony of thoughts, actions, and reality. — Debasish Mridha
Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words prope — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thund — Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost l — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
Plût au ciel que le lecteur, enhardi et devenu momentanément féroce comme ce qu’il lit, trouve, sans se désorienter, son — Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies
Dive again and again into the river of uncertainty. Create in the dark, only then can you recognize the light. — Jyrki Vainonen
I spoke fire, laughed smoke, and madness spilled forth from my inspiration. — Arthur Holitscher
In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as they can understand') — Terry Pratchett, The Science of Discworld
Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't — Haruki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance
Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typograp — Tristan Tzara, Manifesti del dadaismo
I bought salvation from a man on the street. He said, "Go down to the beach and let the waves wash your feet. — Gabriel Rheaume