Quotes about Perception

There's a lot of things look better at a distance

Beauty makes promises that beauty cant keep. I've seen it too many times. Twice in this house.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

The kid looked at Tobin. What's he a judge of?

But one's convictions as to the nature of reality must also represent one's limitations as to the perception of it. And then I just stopped worrying about it. I accepted the fact that I would die without really knowing where it was that I had been and that was okay. Well. Almost.

You think sometimes I dont listen. I think you listen. I'm not so sure what you hear.

The girls emerged in their carboncopy dresses and the boy came out of the woods stiffly and looking churlish and sullen and strange, like a child pervert.

Everyone is born with the faculty to see the miraculous. You have to choose not to.

Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

The beautiful pure freedom of a woman was infinitely more wonderful than any sexual love. The only unfortunate thing was that men lagged so behind women in the matter. They insisted on the sex thing like dogs.

She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.