Quotes About Perception

Be open minded don't be afraid to share your thoughts it's not always what you say that is important it's what you think about and may never say that could be.

Fidelity is a matter of perception; nobody is unfaithful to the sea or to mountains or to death: once recognized they fill the heart.

One of my favorite games when I was a kid was 'murder/suicide'. Dad would show us a photo and ask us: 'Is it a murder or a suicide ?'

When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.

Death wears many faces, but it's stench is always the same.

The number one reason for the death of young actors' careers is people get so used to seeing them playing that one character that they can't accept them as anyone else.

You know, I just don't believe that art is supposed to make sense. I really don't think it's supposed to be analyzed to death. It's left to the listener or looker to get what they can get from it.

I felt myself getting whiter... What does it mean to become white? How does it feel to see Death in the flesh, come to gather you in?

Attraction and aversion create a sense of self. There is no self. They are just thoughts. They are insubstantial. When you die, all the ideas of self will go away.

Everything goes through the cycle of birth, growth, maturation, decay and death. But all of this is an illusion. Everything we see is an illusion.

When you die you pass into inner worlds and continue to perceive. Death is not the dissolution of the self. Death is rather just a change in perception.

If you can die, you are confused because death is a perception of something ending and something else obviously beginning, which means we're still hung up on qualities.

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Birth and death are illusions, they are part of the dream.

On waking from the dream, we see that birth and death, the sense of self, other - all of these things fade away.

I found out about Jonathan Winters death a day after it happened. That seems wrong. A talent like his should be more revered. The world knew about Kim Kardashians divorce before she did.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.

Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality.

Pain, unless it is physical, was sold to you (by your culture).

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

I've always been under the assumption that death is a one-time, encompassing event." "Why would you ever think that?

Whenever I see an ambulance, I like to think there is a baby being born, rather than a death.