Quotes About Perception

Why depression is hard to understand IT IS INVISIBLE. It is not "feeling a bit sad.

So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.

Maybe once you had known fear and love and beauty, you could never unknow them.

An online profile of your best friend is not your best friend. A status update about a day in the park is not a day in the park. And the desire to tell the world about how happy you are is not how happy you are.

Thomas Hobbes had viewed memory and imagination as pretty much the same thing, and since discovering that she had never entirely trusted her memories.

An impossibility is just a possibility you don't understand yet.

But as things stood, there weren't even two fun days. They only had Saturdays, because Mondays were a little bit too close to Sundays for Sunday's liking, as if Monday were a collapsed star in the week's solar system, with an excessive gravitational pull.

Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead.

Thoreau wrote, 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Ignore idiots with narrow definitions od beauty. They are blind to life's imperfect wonder.

The world exists in you. Your experience of the world isn't this objective unchangeable thing called "The World." No. Your experience of the world is your interaction with it, your interpretation of it. To a certain degree we all make our own worlds.

The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.

She knew that everything humans see is a simplification. A human sees the world in three dimensions. That is simplification. Humans are fundamentally limited, generalising creatures, living on auto-pilot, who straighten curved streets in their minds, which explains why they get lost all the time.

I should also say, in case it needs saying: I don't know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren't. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

It's such a weird thing for young people to look at distorted images of things they should be.' —Daisy Ridley, on why she quit Instagram

In California the only way to look like you are getting older is to look like you are getting younger...if you can move your forehead over the age of forty, then people become very suspicious.

I am just saying if you knew about me there would be a very strong chance you would think I was insane.

It seems that worrying about growing old is a sign you are young.

Depression lies. And while the feelings themselves were real, the things they led me to believe were resolutely not.

The text began to swirl and soon became indecipherable, in fast motion, as she felt herself weaken. She never knowingly let go of the #book, but there was a moment where she was no longer a person #reading it, and a consequent moment where there was no book--or library--at all.

Love is what the humans are all about but they don't understand it. If they understood it, then it would disappear.

I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing-enough voice and they would believe it. Anything, of course, except the truth.

And how could I believe that Australian wine was automatically inferior to wine sourced from other regions on the planet when I had never drunk anything but liquid nitrogen?

the way I understand my life is as a kind of Russian doll, with different versions inside other versions, each one enclosing the other, whereby the life before isn't seen from the outside but is still there.