Quotes about Perception

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

For nothing was simply one thing.

It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt, but that was what music was for.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

Roses, she thought sardonically, All trash, m'dear.

Sometimes, one trembling star comes in the clear sky and makes me think the world beautiful and we maggots deforming even the trees with our lusts.

With my cheek leant upon the window pane I like to fancy that I am pressing as closely as can be upon the massy wall of time, which is forever lifting and pulling and letting fresh spaces of life in upon us. May it be mine to taste the moment before it has spread itself over the rest of the world! Let me taste the newest and the freshest.

One wanted fifty pairs of eyes to see with, she reflected. Fifty pairs of eyes were not enough to get round that one woman with, she thought.