Tilda Swinton Quotes

Things are NEVER what they seem, Pa, I thought. I used to think they were, but I was wrong or stupid or blind or something. Old folks are forever complaining about their failing eyesight, but I think your vision gets better as you get older. Mine surely was.

To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

Literally, no man ever sees himself as others see him. No photograph or reflection ever gives us the same slant on ourselves that others see. It has often been proved on the witness stand that no two people ever see the same accident precisely the same way. We see through different eyes and from different angles. But if we could see things as other people see them, we could come closer to knowing why they do what they do and why they say what they say.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.

Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

...Don't rupture another's illusion unless you're positive the alternative you offer is more worthwhile than that from which you're wrenching them. Interrogate your solipsism: Does it offer any better a home than the delusions you're reaching to shatter?

Looks can be deceiving.

Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

It's easy when you've had difficulty or strife in your life to look at other people who seem like they've had it easier. But the thing we forget is that it is all relative, and each person's experience is uniquely their own, so that the worst thing they may be going through is truly the worst thing for them... it's just about having compassion.

Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.

The only reality of the theater exists in the mind of the audience.

Reality is an acquired taste.