Quotes About Perception

Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

What we are probably given is a mixture of truth and untruth. It's anybody's guess as to which part is which and how much there is of each.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

Beautiful hours move so quickly. ? Irene Hunt, Up a Road Slowly . (Berkley; 2nd ed. edition January 4, 2005) Originally published 1966

By assuming a cheerful outlook you could sometimes fool even yourself into believing everything was all right.

Ellijay, hadn't she known

They said no one knew a man as well as a woman who slept with him.

We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth -- well, it's like brown -- it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality" says Iris Murdoch. But given the state of the world, is it wise?

Yes, of course, there's something fishy about describing people's feelings. You try hard to be accurate, but as soon as you start to define such and such a feeling, language lets you down. It's really a machine for making falsehoods. When we really speak the truth, words are insufficient. Almost everything except things like "pass the gravy" is a lie of a sort. And that being the case, I shall shut up. Oh, and... pass the gravy.

Anything that consoles is fake.

Just as, in travel, one may miss seeing the sunset because one cannot find the ticket-office or is afraid of missing the train, so in even the closest human relationships a vast amount of time and of affection is drained away in minor misunderstandings, missed opportunities, and failures in consideration or understanding.

A lie travels farther than the truth.

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

Everyone is wise until he speaks.

Youth has a small head

If a young woman from money marries an old man because of money and nothing else and makes love to him for hours and has this pious look on her face, she's called a German mother and a decent woman. If a young woman without money sleeps with a man with no money because he has smooth skin and she likes him, she's a whore and a bitch.

That says a lot, if somebody pleases you - love is so much more that I'm thinking, perhaps it doesn't exist at all.

You can always tell the profession of a girl's last boyfriend, because they talk the language of his occupation.