Quotes about Perception

Death is a sort of lens, thought I used to think of it as a wall or shut door. It changes things and makes them clear.

Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.

Their failure was something you felt rather than saw.

It was as though I knew without exactly knowing, or felt, or smelled in the air, the already accomplished fact that nothing would ever be simple for me again. I never again would be able to put my life in a box and carry it away.

They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.

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.