Quotes About Perception

There is no death of anyone, save in appearance, just as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

I see black light (his last words)

The same past data can confirm a theory and its exact opposite! If you survive until tomorrow, it could mean that either a) you are more likely to be immortal or b) that you are closer to death.

I think beating someone to death with a ukulele would just sound funny.

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

Matter and death are mortal illusions.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

You should never, ever be understood completely. That's like the kiss of death, isn't it? It's a full stop. I don't ever think you should put full stops on thoughts. They change.

I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin's death as George Zimmerman was.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

Technicolor makes me look like death warmed over.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

[We assume] that the self is an actual living thing, but it's not. It's a projection which our clever brains create in order to cheat ourselves from the reality of death.

Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed.

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.

I wonder how it takes you, that moment when everything turns to shadows. - Somerled.

I do not believe in my death.