Image Quotes

“When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.”
― Clarice Lispector

“Before You post

*Will this ultimately glorify me or God?
*Will this stir or muffle healthy affections for Christ?
*Will this merely document that I know something that others don’t?
*Will this misrepresent me or is it authentic?
*Will this potentially breed jealousy in others?
*Will this fortify unity or stir up unnecessary division?
*Will this build up or tear down?
*Will this heap guilt or relieve it?
*Will this fuel lust for sin or warn against it?
*Will this overpromise and instill false hopes in others?”
― Tony Reinke, 12 Ways Your Phone Is Changing You

“It is only with the heart that one can see, hear and feel clearly. Think of an image, music or movie that moves you. Things that we truly love touch our heart before our head analyzes them away. Once we think we understand them, they disappear... It is because simple things in life are invisible, inaudible and insensible to an analytical mind and an undiscerning heart. Let your heart hear the music -- be moved by images, people and places... for that makes you more alive than others.”
― Val Uchendu

“You're the mirror, I am your image...”
― Arash Pakravesh, The Letter

“When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“Incapable of communicating himself to others, incapable of breaking out of his isolation, doomed to remain the mere actor of his life, the deputy of his own ego—all that any human being can know of another is a mere symbol, a symbol of an ego that remains beyond our grasp, possessing no more value than that of a symbol; and all that can be told is the symbol of a symbol, a symbol at a second, third, nth remove, asking for representation in the true double sense of the word.”
― Hermann Broch, The Sleepwalkers

“Because most people live either in the past or in the future, it is not correct to say that the current world population is 7.6 billion! World is full of ghosts because if your mind is not in the present time, your turn into a ghost, you become just an image!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“How difficult it has become to decipher the truth from the fictitious, to trust one’s own eyes over the art of image distortion. Information is power and if readings have taught us anything, it is that power inevitably corrupts.”
― Aysha Taryam

“You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.”
― Victoria Holt, Menfreya in the Morning

“I warned her that her lover is
the Picture of Dorian Gray
but
in reverse.

Instead of the portrait taking in
the ugliness
and sin
so he can be and
do
whatever he wants

Instead

he lets himself be ugly
so the image can stay
pristine

- Dorian Grey”
― Abby Rosmarin, No One Reads Poetry: A Collection of Poems

“The image in cinema is based on the ability to present as an observation one's own perception of an object”
― Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

“Man lives in the midst of images. Literature offers him a critical image of himself.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Between Existentialism and Marxism

“A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.”
― Susan Sontag

“You're in the mirror, I am your image...”
― Arash Pakravesh, The Letter

“You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you close your eyes in a park you will realise that everything you see around is at the same time in the air because everything has a scent and every scent is a misty image!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“..but if it does occur, then anyone can comprehend that above us and below us, outside of ourselves and deep within ourselves, there is a universe, the one and only, which is not identical with the sky looming above us overhead, because that universe is not made of stars and planets and suns and galaxies, because that universe is not a picture, it cannot be seen, it doesn't even have a name, for it is so much more precious than anything that could have a name, and that is why it is such a joy to me that I can practice Seiobo; Seiobo is the emissary who arrives and says I am not the desire for peace, I am peace itself; Seiobo arrives and says do not be afraid, for the universe of peace is not the rainbow of yearning; the universe, the real universe— already exists.”
― László Krasznahorkai, Seiobo There Below

“You know those guys who say 'danger is my middle name'? I bet if you looked on their driver's licence it would probably say 'Melvin' or something.”
― Lee Entrekin

“(from a prayer for inclusiveness):
O god whose face changes as we move and learn and change, whose image becomes less like ours and more like that of the stranger we treat as a friend; the god whom we create from the sum of all we know that is wonderful, generous, true and wise: May we see ourselves in the god-ness of others and ourselves in their image of you.”
― Bronwyn Angela White, You Who Delight Me

“Love doesn't need a reply... ignorance and is it a romantic image?”
― Deyth Banger, Deep Legend

“Even after human beings have reached adulthood and developmental maturity, there remain hindrances in human nature that make it difficult for them to act from moral principle. One of most fundamental challenges is the fact that the developmentally mature human mind is still a finite intelligence rather than an infinite intelligence. The adult human mind is equipped only with ‘a discursive, image-dependent understanding’ (CU V 408): in order to think abstractly, we need images. The finitude of the human condition thus poses a permanent challenge to the task of grasping ideas of pure reason such as a priori moral norms or the concept of a morally perfect will.

Kant’s basic response to this challenge of human finitude is to articulate various strategies for representing moral concepts analogically and symbolically through images. As he remarks in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, ‘for the human being the invisible needs to be represented through something visible (sensible)’ (Religion VI 192).”
― Robert B. Louden

“[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implies a life-long need for concrete moral examples and personal exemplars. With his second argument in defence of examples, we are no longer talking about a strategy of moral education that is to be applied only to children and that can be dispensed with once they reach adulthood. Adult human beings do have stronger powers of reflection and abstraction than do children. But even adults remain saddled with ‘a discursive image-dependent understanding’, and thus they will always need examples in order to make the law visible to themselves.”
― Robert B. Louden

“Calvin Little, Lepidopterist! Calvin Little, he of the Still Waters Running Deep all over the place. Sweet, belt-wearing, Latin-spouting Calvin, to whom I owed three dollars and seventy-five cents. He had called himself my friend, and for some reason that knocked me out more than if he had professed his undying love for me. Friend, as in the noun-not-the-verb, as in real-life, flesh-and-blood friend. I wanted to cry with appreciation for him. As I glue-sticked the Blue Morpho into the GBBoE, it occured to me that my mind had snapped a photograph of Calvin– Calvin kneeling in the sunshine, his brilliant hair aflame in the light, cradling that butterfly in his freckled hands–and that I might just carry the image with me for the rest of my life.”
― Sarah Combs, Breakfast Served Anytime

“When he walked out of my life after three years, he was the same person who had entered my life three years earlier. I’d formed an image out of my perception. I thought he was what I wanted him to be.”
― Neena H. Brar, Tied to Deceit

“I worried about the growing opposition, but publicly my posture was to take the offensive and concede nothing to my critics. When a reporter later asked me why I got a forty-year tax abatement, I answered, “Because I didn’t ask for fifty.”
― Donald Trump, Мистецтво укладати угодк

“Image of perfection is time wasting

- As far as I know you never going to get there... but waste time... then in the end time is going to waste you.”
― Deyth Banger

“Be careful and chose the words wisely, you use, because those are somehow the reflection of your mind, heart, and feelings. That can build your image of the personality or collapse.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“I only look like everyone else because I’ve never really taken the time to understand either of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Who cares if it’s silly or weird. If it is not hurting anyone and brings you joy do it. In fact, do more of it. Be you. It’s your life make the most of it. Enjoy it!”
― Akiroq Brost

“Ken Schles: Image and text are two ways to probe existence. They operate differently and inform each other in rich and profound ways, but the two never meet except in a kind of long-distance dialogue. It’s a dance I’m entranced with, but I can’t say I understand it.”
― Taco Hidde Bakker, The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain