Quotes About Perception

She wasn't some little princess from the suburbs who just graduated college with a humanities degree, she knew what people were really like.

making our way through a theme movie night (we'd picked out four films in which the ending is probably the main character's dying hallucination: Taxi Driver, Minority Report, The Shawshank Redemption, and Mrs. Doubtfire). In

Better to be looked over than overlooked. You want to walk into that funeral and have every dude in that room whip their head around and say, 'God-damn them is some fine-ass titties. I got to find me a divorce lawyer in the next five minutes.

you had wired-up glasses, you could overlay your view with their feed—literally see the world through their eyes, blotting out your own reality completely.

John glanced around, half expecting to see a disheveled Dave pulling himself up from some spot on the floor. He'd be squinting, his hair matted down, looking like he'd just been shit out of a dinosaur.

It doesn't eat only birds—it mostly eats rats and insects—but they still call it the "Bird-Eating Spider" because the fact that it can eat a bird is the most important thing you need to know about it.

We can't even convince the public that global warming is dangerous. Why? Because carbon dioxide happens to be invisible.

We fixed him just by telling him that he wasn't crazy, that the horrors he was seeing were real. He seemed oddly comforted by that. He was a lawyer.

You see, because John and I have this thing where we're both seeing completely different versions of you. Now, John has eyesight problems because of his constant masturbation, but I don't think—" She burst into snakes.

My next novel will be the third volume in the John Dies at the End series, and in fact may already exist, again depending on when you're reading this.

If somebody comes on TV and says everything is great and wonderful, you don't believe it, you say they're blowing smoke up your butt. You demand proof. But if one second later, some guy comes on and says everything is falling apart, you automatically believe it, no questions asked.

A ghost sighting is usually nothing more than your brain trying to put a familiar face on something that does not have a face at all.

I was about to warn the girl about John's coffee, which tasted like a cup of battery acid someone had pissed in and then cursed at for several hours,

Have you never noticed that, after hearing a new word for the first time in your life, you'll hear it again within twenty-four hours?

We can't see around walls, we can't see heat or cold, we can't see electricity or radio signals, we can't see at a distance. It is a sense so limited that we might as well not have it, yet we have evolved to depend so heavily on it as a species that all other perception has atrophied.

You don't even exist. We're all just a figment of my cock's imagination.

And I'm not crazy. I mean, I know anybody can say that. But a crazy person can't fake sane, right?

Time is the thing that everyone knows intimately – until you ask them to tell you about It.

Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [...] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [...]

To believe our own feelings and thoughtways must be universally shared by others is the commonest of mistakes,

And I, through the reflecting pools of his deep–set eyes—I saw a savage man I did not like.

If there is no true creation then there is no true reality. If nothing is real, then man is not real; man in some fundamental sense does not exist. Reality is all a dream, and worse, it is less than a dream because even a dream must have a dreamer to dream it. To

He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.