Idealized Perception Quotes

You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?

Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

[He] fell right into the oldest conviction in the world-- that the girl you are in love with can't possibly be anything but true and honest.

I think social media is painting an unattainable picture of perfection.

I feel my work is made for one being, one individual. You could say that's me, but that's not really true. It's for an idealized viewer.

I will always love the false image I had of you.

I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

Memory is your image of perfection.

The grass is always greener over the septic tank.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real

Being blinded by young love. I remember the feeling, when I first fell in love - you don't see the world the same way that other people see it. You don't see the same boundaries.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

The presentation of young people you often get from Hollywood is too shiny.

I read and I read; and I was like a medieval king, I had fallen in love with the picture long before I saw the reality.

Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

The Water Babies "Young and Old" When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away: Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day.