Quotes About Idealization

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.

The love I knew was from books..

I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

The outsider never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of the West. The West never gets over its heightened and romantic notions of itself.

In my daydreams I'm always much prettier (and smarter, funnier, and more popular). I also never fall into drainpipes.

It has always been hard for me to talk about Julian without romanticizing him. In many ways, I loved him the most of all; and it is with him that I am most tempted to embroider, to flatter, to basically reinvent.

people are never like what you remember them. You make them, as the years go by, more and more the way you wish them to be, and as you think you remember them. If you want to remember them as agreeable and gay and handsome, you make them far more so than they actually were.

At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to.

Tal vez correspondiera decir que, más que perder la pasión, la habían congelado de tanto idealizarla.

Perhaps it would be better to say that, rather than losing their passion, they had frozen it by over-idealizing it.

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty four hours.

You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.

For you the guy should be the one who will look like the God among the guys.

A corollary to this idea is that the past, which people are likely to idealize during an ending

The town's young parents especially prized this idea of Newton as a child's paradise. Many of them had left the hip, sophisticated city to move here. They had accepted massive expenses, stultifying monotony, and the queasy disappointment of settling for a conventional life. To

If your god never disagrees with you, you might just be worshipping an idealized version of yourself.

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.

The good guy only gets the girl in a soppy way.

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years.