unreality

Noun

Meaning

The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.

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Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it. Albert Camus

The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. Allan Sherman

What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race. Amedeo Modigliani

[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew. Margaret Mead

Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands? Emil Cioran

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters. Kenneth Rexroth

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