Quotes About Perception

Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections.

She saw more melody in a differential equation than in a piece by Beethoven.

how the sensational always sticks in the mind and stands out at the expense of the ordinary, which – maybe precisely because it is so ordinary – tells us something more significant about the real world.

In her opinion he was an intellectual who had consciously decided to see the world in a positive light,

have no idea who she was," Brandell said, "although I did recognize her from somewhere—I had the feeling that it was something bad. She was tattooed and pierced and all that crap and looked like a heavy rocker or goth or punk, plus she was as thin as hell.

synaesthesia—the condition where two or more senses are connected, for example when numbers are seen in colour and every series of numbers forms an image in the mind.

I saw her eyes and then it no longer mattered how neat and tidy she looked. What I saw was lethal. Her eyes were jet black.

sabía demasiado bien hasta qué punto el odio y las mentiras distorsionan la realidad y destruyen a las personas,

I'm lying. He tasted the words. If it's true that I'm lying then I'm telling the truth…The

That is no doubt the disadvantage of having intelligent friends. They see straight through you.

IQ-ul nu înseamn? mare lucru, spusese el într-un interviu. ?i Goering avea un IQ mare. Po?i fi idiot ?i a?a.

I quickly discovered three distinct traits about my tablemates: They hit each other a lot. They swore a lot. They belched a lot.

For those who are suffering from chronic pain, there is a direct link between the level of pain and negative thinking.

You could reach for him, and sometimes you would grab hold of him. But sometimes all you would grab hold of was a reflection of a reflection in a revolving door.

Cautiously his foot explored, wiggled as it could, and finally felt warm flesh under the pants leg.

Speciàl" is one of those elusive French words that means something (or someone is...peculiar. The use of it is one of the rare times that the French are noncommittal about their opinion.

Dorothy Parker who wrote witty stories, did not foresee that spectacles would be- come fashion accessories. "Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses." And today, in Washington Square Park I thought of her, Miss Parker, and what she might say assessing the spectacles of our day: "Even the nicest lasses Have tattoos on their asses.

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

I dream with open eyes,' he answered, looking around at the door, 'and others see my dreams. That is all.

It isn't a bad thing to hear voices... but you mustn't for a minute imagine that all is wise that comes to you out of the night world.

Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.

But one of them has to do with the sense of, the sense of capturing, capturing what the world feels like to us, in the sort of way that I think that a reader can tell "Another sensibility like mine exists.