Quotes about Perception

It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong. And that is something I don't want to be wrong about.

It looks a lot better from up here than it does down there, dont it? Yes. It does. There's a lot of things look better at a distance. Yeah? I think so. I guess there are. The life you've lived, for one. Yeah. Maybe what of it you aint lived yet, too.

Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.

Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.

He thought that God's goodness appeared in strange places. Dont close your eyes.

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on. In my own life I saw these strings whose origins were endless enact the deaths of great men in violence and madness. Enact the ruin of a nation.

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep.

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that.

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

He tried to read her heart in her handclasp but he knew nothing.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.