Quotes About Perception

El absurdo es que no parezca un absurdo -dijo sibilinamente Oliveira-. El absurdo es que salgas por la mañana a la puerta y encuentres la botella de leche en el umbral y te quedes tan tranquilo porque ayer te pasó lo mismo y mañana te volverá a pasar. Es ese estancamiento, ese así sea, esa sospechosa carencia de excepciones. Yo no sé, che, habría que intentar otro camino.

Te concedo que mi manera de sentirla o de entenderla es diferente de la de Babs, y que la realidad de Babs difiere de la de Ossip y así sucesivamente. Pero es como las distintas opiniones sobre la Gioconda o sobre la ensalada de escarola. La realidad está ahí y nosotras en ella, entendiéndola a nuestra manera pero en ella.

He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.

How do they who think they are unhappy differ from they who actually are?

You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

I used to do drugs, but don't tell anyone because it'll ruin my image.

Time shrinks when it's not paid attention to.

You can't tell young people what you think of their behaviour if you haven't known them since they were toddlers, and even then you keep a close eye on your tongue. Knives and guns are commonplace, and there are even local stories of people being shot for asking the young not to smoke in a public space. So

Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

A Woman is a foreign land,Of which, though there he settle young,A man will ne'er quite understandThe customs, politics, and tongue.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

There are few things more frustrating than being forced to sit through a bad film with someone who thinks it's a masterpiece.

It's a strange feeling to be both famous and unknown at the same time.

if the Now moves, it must move with respect to time. But the Now is time. So is it moving with respect to itself? No, says Williams, that doesn't make sense. If it's moving, it must be moving with respect to a second time – the second one being the time with respect to which the first one moves. Tensers

There seemed to be a pattern to the drips from each seep, a pattern I had heard before, wondering each time if there might be a sort of specific timing.... The sounds were predisposed, unaware of anything more important than their own syncopation.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

Just as it did when I spoke to you that day from the phone, your face comes into focus more and more as I hold you here beside me.

Candle is an X-ray, it's a matter of wavelength.

My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they're being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what's behind their eyes.

While we like to think that our theology shapes our understanding of the world, our understanding of the world often shapes our theology. The central metaphors of an era will often shift our notions of God.

People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

Fraser's mother, Janice, was actually quite a happy soul but she had to hide it because, like all pseudo intellectuals, she thought being cheery made her look stupid, which of course she was for believing that rubbish in the first place. She like to talk about Sartre sometimes, just as insurance.

114 isn't as old as it used to be they say its the new 104.

Time is only linear for engineers and referees.