Jenny Han Quotes

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

Truth and dreams are always getting muddled.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

I believe that we face incredible obstacles in our attempts to see the world. Everything in our nature tries to deny the world around us; to refabricate it in our own image; to reinvent it for our own benefit. And so, it becomes something of a challenge, a task, to recover (or at least attempt to recover) the real world despite all the impediments to that end.

Some people see what they want to see.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Time is only an idea. There is only the Reality. Whatever you think it is, it looks like that. If you call it time, it is time. If you call it existence, it is existence, and so on. After calling it time, you divide it into days and nights, months, years, hours, minutes, etc. Time is immaterial for the Path of Knowledge.

Truth is always a delusion.

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it; most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most 'familiarity' is meditated and delusive.