idealize Quotes

“It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.”

“I...have a woman in my arms who has suffered greatly and desperately needs to believe once again that she is beautiful.”

“When she needed help most, she was abandoned—and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.”

“you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.”

“Associate yourself with poetic images and objects, so that when they think of you, they begin to see you through an idealized halo. The more you figure in their minds, the more they will envelop you in seductive fantasies.“

“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”

“And yet, although we know it to be a mere delusion, we all idealize and idolize our childhood.”

Levin scarcely remembered his mother. His conception of her was for him a sacred memory, and his future wife was bound to be in his imagination a repetition of that exquisite, holy ideal of a woman that his mother had been.