Quotes About Perception

It reminds us of a statement attributed to Voltaire: "God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to return the favor ever since.

God's is real power clothed in apparent powerlessness; Evil's is apparent power which is really powerlessness.

in his mind nearly everyone seemed to be noticing him in the same way that he was focusing on himself.

You owe it to your public to remain fuckable.

Critics love Elvis Costello because they all look like him.

When you get down to the bottom of it, only about half of what we remember really happened. We tend to modify things to make ourselves look better in our own eyes and in the eyes of others. Then, if what we did wasn't really very admirable, we tend to forget that it ever happened. A normal human being's grasp on reality is very tenuous at best. Our imaginary lives are usually much nicer.

Photography is light-writing, the language of images. Less abstract than written or spoken language, it selects images from the existing world of appearances and arranges them in patterns. The camera-eye doesn't think, it recognizes. It shows us what we already know, but don't know that we know.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

The way you're singing in your sleep The way you look before you leap The strange illusions that you keep You don't know But I'm noticing The way your touch turns into arcs The way you slide into the dark The beating of my open heart You don't know But I'm noticing

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

libidinous , adj . I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor. Until I was with you and I realized: you don't ever realize you're on the floor.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.

Sometimes when you hit send, you can imagine the message going straight into the person's heart. But other times, like this time, it feels like the words are merely falling into a well.

We believe in the wrong things, that's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

I've always known I was gay, but it wasn't confirmed until I was in kindergarten. It was my teacher who said so. It was right there on my kindergarten report card: PAUL IS DEFINITELY GAY AND HAS VERY GOOD SENSE OF SELF.

Ignorance is not bliss. Bliss is knowing the full meaning of what you have been given.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

He has no idea how beautiful the ordinary becomes once it disappears.

And I find myself saying, "It wasn't really about her." And finding it's true. What do you mean?" Norah asks. It was about the feeling, you know? She caused it in me, but it wasn't about her. It was about my reaction, what I wanted to feel and then convinced myself that I felt, because I wanted it that bad. That illusion. It was love because I created it as love.