Quotes about Perception

For when a man of high degree meets with adversity, he feels the strangeness of his fallen state more keenly than a sufferer of long standing.

It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

I've got an adjective that just fits you.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.

Sometimes I don't know whether Zelda and I are real or just characters in one of my novels.

He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.

What was it? Why won't you tell me? I don't want to break down your illusions. My dear man, I have no illusions about you. I mean illusions about yourself.

It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.