Quotes About Perception

Unii oameni traiesc, iar altii ii contempla cum traiesc, eu ma numar printre cei care contempla. Dumneavoastra?

She has learned not to be nervous in rooms in which people take note of each other, weigh up, write down, write off, avoid, eye up. She doesn't dream, she is simply at rest. Others seek peace of mind, Miranda had peace of eye.

Life is reading a page that you have read, or reading over your shoulder, reading with you and not forgetting, because you don't forget anything. Life is also walking around in this void, which has space for everything.

Ich aber konnte überhaupt keine Schuld in dem Kind entdecken, seit es nicht mehr so wehrlos und stumm wie in den ersten Wochen war. Und damals war es wohl nicht unschuldig, sondern nur unfähig zu einer Äußerung gewesen, ein Bündel auf feinem Fleisch und Flachs, mit dünnem Atem, mit einem riesigen dumpfen Kopf, der wie ein Blitzableiter die Botschaften der Welt entschärfte.

I also learn about real and apparent wind, ... What counts in sailing is the apparent wind.

Message Out of the corpse-warm foyer of the sky steps the sun. There it is not the immortals, but rather the fallen, we perceive. And brilliance doesn't trouble itself with decay. Our Godhead, History, has ordered for us a grave from which there is no resurrection.

You came after me, you can't have preceded me, you're completely inconceivable before me.

You keep everything under observation and that's why you don't notice anything.

something is always eluding me, but internally, whenever I explore this infinite space inside me. Nothing much has changed since the good old days when people first started going into space. Malina: Infinite? Me: Of course. How could this space be anything but infinite?

Oder leiden die anderen nicht so sehr darunter, weil sie kein andres System haben, die Welt zu sehen?

Damals fing ich auch an, alles was ich las, entstellt zu lesen. Wenn irgendwo stand >Sommermoden<, habe ich gelesen >Sommermorde<. [...] Die neuen Wintermorde sind angekommen, sie werden schon in den wichtigsten Mordhäusern vorgeführt.

What of those loving, accepting, understanding voices? Do you hear them? Or do you only hear what hurts?

What actually is possible, however, is transformation. And the transformative effect that emanates from new works leads us to new perception, to a new feeling, new consciousness

People look at the outside of a person and assume they know everything there is to know about the inside of that person. The trouble is a few coats of paint and some new shutters can do a lot for the exterior of a house, but tell you nothing about its foundation or its ability to weather life's storms. I would say the same is true of people.

The problem is, you're looking for faults from the first moment you meet a man." "I hate to disillusion you, but when they're as obvious as the San Andreas, they're not that hard to spot.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality." —Alexis Carrel

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anaïs Nin

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." ? Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees my pictures or not. They are for me, part of who I am and how I express my interpretation of what I see in this world.

People are almost never what you think. Don't even try to figure them out. Something Andy once read in a magazine. Turns out it's true.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Reality is perhaps not at all what I imagine. Perhaps it doesn't exist, in fact. Perhaps it only exists as a longing.

Necessary illusions enable us to live.

they said you were mentally healthy, but your madness is the worst