Quotes About Perception

I was little more than a child still wrapped in a soothing blanket of illusion

Why would I be angry? Because they believe a thing does not make it so. There is no dignity in anger. But I am also not a kicked dog.

Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.

Bobby had a gift and the gift was his simplicity. The world for Bobby Cole was a place he accepted without needing to understand it. Me

But intentions could be like cloud animals in the sky, so clear for a while, then shifting, then fading, then gone.

The head and the heart, you know, they don't always see eye to eye.

people are most afraid of things they don't understand, and if something frightened you, you should get closer to it. That didn't mean it wouldn't still be an awful thing, but the awful you knew was easier to handle than the awful you imagined. So

What we use to construct the past is...a hodgepodge of fleeting glimpses...a construct of what stands in the light and what I imagine in the dark where I cannot see.

I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed. Take

although the rain would miss us I could see quite well the silver bolts of lightning forged on the anvil of the great thunderhead. I slipped downstairs and out the front door and sat on the porch steps. A wind cooler than anything I'd felt in days breathed into my face and I watched the storm as I might have watched the approach and passing of a fierce and beautiful animal.

What does she see in him?' Cork asked. 'He looks like a burned matchstick.

But I know you, brother. And I know you got all the substance of a soap bubble.

Smells are the time machines of human perception. A scent can take you instantly back to a particular place and time.

she couldn't help wondering what became of human beings who lived too long without beauty.

Standing in that simple cabin in the middle of nowhere, his hand in the grip of the oldest man he had ever seen, Bo realized that he was in the presence of someone whose power was of a remarkably different kind.

Because they believe a thing does not make it so. There is no dignity in anger. But

If she'd still had sight, her eyes would have beheld a wonderful view from the few feet of earth that were to be hers forever.

You stuff your own closet full of skeletons and you wonder what kind of bones everyone else has stuffed away.

She'd been notoriously bad, had had a reputation among their Chicago friends for possessing a flair for the soggy, the lumpy, the burned.

Anyone who is good at something makes it look easy. That does not mean it is.

We may believe what goes beyond our experience, only when it is inferred from that experience by the assumption that what we do not know is like what we know.

don't worry about how things look. People are going to think whatever they think. To hell with 'em. You can't worry about it.

I have an idea that is is what enduring love really means, Your memories of a girl at seventeen become as real and vivid as the middle-aged woman sitting in front of you. It is a happy sort of double vision, this seeing and remembering. To be seen this way is to be known.

I admit--no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed-