Quotes about Perception

Memory believes before knowing remembers.

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking down a long corridor of gray half light where all stable things had become shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible form antic and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should have affirmed thinking I was I was not who was not was not who.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight before us in a diminishing line, now runs parallel between us like a looping string, the distance being the doubling accretion of the thread an not the interval between.

how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.