Quotes About Perception

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. There's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them and then you never know where the hell you are

I think I would rather possess eyes that know no sight, ears that know no sound, hands that know no touch than a heart that knows no love.

The loveliest of faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

A man in love mistakes a pimple for a dimple.

Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

When you interact with another, an illusion is part of this dynamic. This illusion allows each soul to perceive what it needs to understands in order to heal.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; -- and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.

Men who allow their love of power to give them a distorted view of the world are to be found in every asylum: one man will think that he is the Governor of the Bank of England, another will think he is the King, and yet another will think he is God.

None love the messenger who brings bad news.

Love at first sight is possible, but it pays to take a second look.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

I love him but he dosen't see that we can be in love for real.

Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true.

Hence arose the saying, If I love you, what is that to you? We say so, because we feel that what we love is not in your will, but above it. It is not you, but your radiance. It is that which you know not in yourself, and can never know.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.

Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.