Quotes About Perception

If there's one good thing about terror, Lydia now understands, it's that it's more immediate than grief.

She was a woman who had never been beautiful, but who took care to appear as if she might once have been.

The man's words have landed on her face and she does – she looks like an Aztec warrior.

If I don't look in the mirror, I can go around thinking I'm gorgeous when I'm not.

defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing

They perceive each other, the unspoken trauma they've both endured, their reasons for being here. It's as subtle and significant as a heartbeat.

If a tourist mecca like Acapulco could fall, then nowhere in Mexico was safe.

San Pedro Sula: second-largest city in Honduras, a million and a half people, murder capital of the world. Out loud, he says, "Ah, you are Honduran." "No," Rebeca corrects him. "Ch'orti'." Luca makes his face into a question. "Indian," she explains. "My people are Ch'orti'." Luca nods, even though he doesn't really understand the difference.

Nature does not deceive us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

At the cinema we do not think, we are thought.

Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.

Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Photography is truth.

Le cinéma, c'est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde.

If you want to make a documentary you should automatically go to the fiction, and if you want to nourish your fiction you have to come back to reality.

Patricia: Do you know William Faulkner? Michel: No. Who's he? Have you slept with him?

Truth is in all things, even partly, in error.

One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

A witch, a term created by those with no concept of what I am, is nothing more than an ordinary person with an extraordinary capability. We're just like everyone else."