Quotes about Perception

We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, so that we can love even with our senseless nails: we love even with our clothes, so that a sleeve can feel a sleeve.

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced

Hatred seems to work on the same glands as love: it even produces the same actions. If we had not been taught how to interpret the story of the Passion, would we have been able to say from their actions alone whether it was the jealous Judas or the cowardly Peter who loved Christ?

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

If ash-trays could speak, sir.' 'Indeed, yes.

So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.

I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different

If they think you admire them, they will admire you because of your good taste, and when they admire you, you have an illusion for a moment that there's something to admire.

What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.

I am interested in the blueness of the cheese.

You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.' 2

She always harboured my criticism: it was only praise that slid from her like the snow.