Dissonance Quotes

“It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.”
― David Levithan, Every Day

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.”
― T.H. White, The Ill-Made Knight

“It is possible that the artists are sane and the world they are painting is crazy.”
― William Zinsser

“Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices often reveal our values, or at least what we’d like people to perceive as our values…as we make our everyday choices, we continuously calculate not just which choices best match who we are and what we want but also how those choices will be interpreted by others. We look for cues in our social environment to figure out what others think of this or that, which can require being sensitive to the most localized and up-to-date details of what a particular choice means.”
― Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing

“Because of propaganda induced cognitive dissonance, most people hate themselves and don't even know it.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“The easiest way to disturb or create an element of horror is to take a positive emotion and put it in a negative situation, to create dissonance.”
― R.R. Hood