Quotes About Perception

They wanted them to look like the Gods. God doesn't look like this.

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip.

All God's angels come to us disguised.

Folks never understand the folks they hate.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing-candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

Reputation is in itself only a farthing candle, of a wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

But all God's angels come to us disguised...

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

You can never really know the truth. Not about life, not about God, not about what's in another person's heart, or even your own. All you can ever really know is what it feels like. What it feels like to laugh and cry and hate and hurt and hope and fear and love; what it feels like to live.

We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality.

We youths say "like" all the time because we mistrust reality. It takes a certain commitment to say something is. Inserting "like" gives you a bit more running room.

That you're Borges.' Manny laughed. 'Of course you are, you dumb shit. That's the whole point.

Anxiety. Dissociation. The words came easily. We attach them to processes, they migrate to the people themselves, and we think: Now I understand. But we don't, and the words themselves interdict further attempts to do so. Maryanne

We live in snow globes, don't we? Pick them up, shake them, years swirl about us and settle.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Age doesn't arrive slowly, it comes in a rush. One day nothing has changed, a week later, everything has. A week may be too long a time, it can happen overnight. You are the same and still the same and suddenly one morning two distinct lines, ineradicable, have appeared at the corners of your mouth.

Man is a hostage to the cage of cultural programing and the mass hallucination of the propagandist's narrative illusion.

The illusion of time and space that has been introduced by those who want to commodities and monetize on the time and space of others.

I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

If letters had eyebrows, these would be arched.

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.