Impressions Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I watched our friends' wary, intelligent faces droop at our tale. Their shock was a mere shadow of our own, resembling more the goodwilled…

— Ian Mcewan

“What is more irritating than to see one’s subject, on whom one has lavished so much time and trouble, slipping out of one’s grasp…

— Virginia Woolf

It has become apparent that art can have a startling impact without really being or saying anything startling — or new. The character itself…

— Clement Greenberg

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

— Malcolm Gladwell

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had…

— Oscar Wilde

I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Recall, then, some event that has left a distinct impression on you---how at the corner of the street, perhaps, you passed two people talking.…

— Virginia Woolf

“The less feelings are released, the better they are portrayed in public. The most sensitive soul can hide behind camouflage and the driest eyes…

— Karin Johannisson

“It has been found that people are more sensitive to negative faces, picking sad and angry expressions out of a crowd more quickly than…

— Glen Wilson

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions.

— Anonymous

“Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to rejoice, and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The experience of pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral is the consequences of perception.”

— Allan Lokos