Idealisation Quotes

“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

“We erect a statue in our own image inside ourselves - idealised, you know, but still recognisable - and then spend our lives engaged in the effort to make ourselves into its likeness.”
― John Banville, The Untouchable

“While his parents never stopped being enigmas to him, Estefania's physicality felt graspable to him, a promise that would not withdraw itself. In Estefania, he saw a world to be painted.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“She had performed as a shape-shifter with no sense of identity.”
― Laura Gentile, Within Paravent Walls

“I fell in love with an image; she was proof I was moving up in the world.”
― Sarah Jollien-Fardel, Sa préférée