Quotes About Idealization

who had taken a violent fancy to me, mistaking me for something vastly better than I was.

There began all the things human beings hold sacred, which can only come from difficulty, struggle, and the growing idealization of bliss and perfection, which can only flourish in the mind when paradise is utterly lost.

She thought she could be saved. She thought he could take her hand and owldance her around the circle. She thought she could watch him fancydance, watch his calf muscles grow more and more perfect with each step. She thought he was Crazy Horse.

I've always idealized women I've loved - they all fell short, save one - the one God chose for me - she lights up a room by walking into it...

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context. This isolation, young love and hero worship accomplish without remorse; they hardly know tenderness.

By clearly emphasizing all that was lacking in others, by mapping and raising to an art form the catalog of their flaws, Veblen's mother had inversely punched out a template for an ideal human being, and it was the unspoken assumption that Veblen would aspire to this template with all her might.

Reveries of idealization develop, not by letting oneself be taken in by memories, but by constantly dreaming the values of a being whom one would love. And that is the way a great dreamer dreams his double. His magnified double sustains him. - Gaston Bachelard, Reveries on Reverie (Anima - Animus), The Poetics of Reverie: Childhood, Language, and the Cosmos, Page 88

The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger or the hem of her robe.

It is for art to present images of a lovelier order than the actual, gently winning the affections, and so determining the taste.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

Every time you reject yourself, you idealize others

I think, for instance, that no one can really love a person who is not superior in every way.

U lepo obu?enoj i iski?enoj ženi priroda je prisutna, ali je zarobljena, modelirana ljudskom voljom po želji muškarca. Žena je utoliko privla?nija ukoliko je njena priroda bujnija i u njoj pot?injenija - to je žena sofisti?ke opsene koja je uvek bila idealni erotski objekat.

He is everything, everything, everything I ever admired and wanted and couldn't have. He is everything I needed and couldn't find in real life. Of course he is. That's why I invented him.

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

Pick a man, any man. Every guy I fall for becomes Jesus Christ within the first twenty-four hours of our relationship. I know that this happens, I see it happening, I even feel myself, sometimes, standing at some temporal crossroads, some distinct moment at which I can walk away and keep it from happening, but I never do. I grab at everything, I end up with nothing, and then I feel bereft. I mourn for the loss of something I never even had.

Women will not suffer their idol to step down from his pedestal. They do not forgive the slightest pettiness in a god.

It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free.

Well, when I was growing up it was Ozzie and Harriet on TV - nobody's parents were like that.

Le mal du pays fait cet effet-là à tout le monde : il transforme les objets de nos souvenirs en idéalités poétiques, dont les qualités grandissent à nos yeux, tandis que les défauts s'adoucissent toujours avec le temps et l'absence, et vont jusqu'à s'effacer dans notre imagination.

He was the sort of child people imagine their children will be, before they have children.

We have a tendency to imagine people the way we would like them to be.

I didn't fit in anywhere when I grew up, but I was always American, so to survive, I created this 'ideal America.' Finally I came to the U.S. and realised, 'Oh, I don't belong here, either.'

Fashion models and financial models are similar. They bear a similar relationship to everyday world. Like supermodels, financial models are idealized representations of the real world, they are not real, they don't quite work the way that the real world works. There is celebrity in both worlds. In the end, there is the same inevitable disappointment" - Satyajit Das, Traders, Guns & Money