Robyn Quotes

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

When you are mad, mad like this, you don't know it. Reality is what you see. When what you see shifts, departing from anyone else's reality, it's still reality to you.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

One person's crazyness is another person's reality.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

Feelings form part of a world in which time, space and frontiers do not exist.

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circumscribed.

When our emotions are engaged, we often have trouble seeing things as they are.

The world's like a ride in a fairground & when you choose to go on it you think it's real, that's how powerful our minds are

Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

People who say ... they're perfectly fine [are] more insane than the rest of us.

The only difference between fear and excitement is what we label it. The two are pretty much the same physiological/emotional reaction. With fear, we put a negative spin on it: "Oh no!" With excitement, we give it some positive english: "Oh, boy!"

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How can one group of people look at the world and see one thing, and another see something completely different? One sees a town, another sees a desert. One sees beauty, another sees chaos.” The skin of this world,” he said quietly.

I can't tell you what it really is, I can only tell you what it feels like.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

When my daughter looks at me, she sees a small old lady. That is because she sees only with her outside eyes. She has no chuming, no inside knowing of things. If she had chuming she would see a tiger lady. And she would have careful fear.

I think our hearts are very chemical and we change the way we see people according to how we feel about them. That's what love is, in a way.

What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.