Quotes About Perception

My friend, that, as anyone can see, is not a hotel; it's a depot.

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another. It was too naked and painful. More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear, face-to-face.

Ez nem én vagyok. Ez nem lehet énnekem az arcom. Az se én voltam, aki ezt az arcot elÅ'ször fölpróbáltam. Se akkor, se most – csak amit az emberek kinéznek belÅ'lem, úgy nézek ki. Mintha kinézetre sose lettem volna én.

And the forest at night might be beautiful, but if it was dark how was a man to know that?

It's like each face was a sign like one of those "I'm Blind" signs the dago accordion players in Portland hung around their necks, only these signs say "I'm tired" or "I'm scared" or "I'm dying of a bum liver" or "I'm all bound up with machinery and people pushing me alla time." I can read all the signs, it don't make any difference how little the print gets.

Maybe he couldn't understand why we weren't able to laugh yet, but he knew you can't really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.

When a man showed up you didn't want to look at his face and he didn't want to look at yours, because it's painful to see somebody so clear that it's like looking inside him, but then neither did you want to look away and lose him completely. You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, as painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself.

Besides, there are some things that can't be the truth even if they did happen.

The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it. I

Now I don't know what I love any more. I don't know where the thing I make-pretend leaves off and the thing that's really there starts up.

making it more than what it is lessens it. Just to see it clear is plenty.

I noticed vaguely that I was getting so's I could see some good in the life around me.

It means this is the only way we ever see ourselves; looking out, at others, reflected through cobwebs from an attic window . . .

I've thought of everything, know what I mean?

But if they don't exist, how can a man see them?

Tudja, hogy az embernek nevetni kell a fájó dolgokat, mert másképp oda az ép ész, és az Å'rületbe hajtja az embert a világ.

Senki se egy nagy csoda, és mégis az van, hogy mindenki a másik rágásával-szapulásával tölti a java életét.

There's long spells — three days, years — when you can't see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell buoy clanging in the fog. When I can see, the guys are usually moving around as unconcerned as though they didn't notice so much as a mist in the air. I believe the fog affects their memory some way it doesn't affect mine.

If they don't exist, how can a man see them?

It's still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it's the truth even if it didn't happen

She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel—tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can't tell which.

He said, What can you pay for the way a man lives? He said, What can you pay for what a man is? They didn't understand.

I didn't say it didn't make sense, Chief – I just said it was talking crazy.

Si-aproape ca zaresc masinaria din ei preluand cuvintele pe care tocmai le-am rostit si-incercand sa le potriveasca ici sau colo, intr-un loc sau altul, si cand constata ca acele cuvinte n-au un loc dinainte stabilit unde sa se aseze, masinaria din ei se leapada de cuvinte de parca nici n-ar fi fost rostite.