Quotes About Perception

How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

It is only to those who have never lived that death ever can seems beautiful.

Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.

Because beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It's the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.

To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

If death turned out to be a lack of being rather than a lack of consciousness, well, then, that sucked.

Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.

Wow. Nice bike," I said. Which was a lie. It looked like a glossy black death trap.

I have seen people who practice yoga and Buddhism who are scared to death of the sorcery powers of others. This is absurd.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

We all think we know what happens after death. But maybe it's going to be not only weird but also dorky and comic and inconsistent.

If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.

Well," I said, "after years and years of painting ourselves opaque, this carries us straight back to when we were sure we were transparent." "Is that it?" "Maybe. Who knows.

I don't give the same credibility to my being that other people give to theirs. Everything feels acted.