Quotes About Perception

I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: "It was the footnotes".

I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

Age is just a number, and agelessness means not buying into the idea that a number determines everything from your state of health to your attractiveness to your value.

Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?

If you have the thought in your mind that you are sick, you surely will be.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

Feeling is what you get for thinking the way you do.

We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions.

The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.

Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.

When you unite the nothingness of your mind with the nothingness of the Frisbee, then the Frisbee is not a Frisbee, and you are not you.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.

How can you eat anything with eyes?

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

The Frisbee is a round disk. That's the somethingness. But it has another side; it has a nothingness which you cannot perceive with your physical mind or your senses.

It is, I guess, politically correct, widely believed, that to say that American health care is the best in the world. It's not.

You are trying to pierce the veil, to break through the Frisbee so that it doesn't exist, to break through the football so it doesn't exist, and to break through your opponent so they don't exist.

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.

Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a healthy point of view.

A common misconception is that the costs of health care are cheaper in rural America, when in fact the reality is that they are more expensive and more difficult to access.