Pareidolia Quotes

“It’s pareidolia. The human mind is constantly looking for patterns in chaos. Just because we see a face doesn’t mean one’s there.”
― Darcy Coates, The Carrow Haunt

“Walking up a road at night, I have seen a lamp and a lighted window and a cloud make together a most complete and unmistakable face. If anyone in heaven has that face I shall know him again.”
― G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“We're wired to see patterns
like pictures in grilled cheese.
On Mars, in stars, in cliffsides -
Oh, the things we once believed!”
― Joseph Raphael Becker, Annabelle & Aiden: Oh, The Things We Believed!

“The cold reader exploits that the human mind is a whiz at making senses of information, shaping faces out of leaves, finding religious icons on pieces of toast, and letting us believe general sentences and uncertain questions add up to prophesy.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“I think the animals we love always love us back unconditionally. Forever." Rosemary was looking down at his feet, a soft smile on her face.
"You really believe that?"
She met his gaze. "I do."
Just then, Rosemary crouched down and picked up a smooth, flat stone with a hole that went straight through it.
"Huh." She held it up to her eye.
"Don't tell me you have a secret rock collection, too?" he smirked.
"No, I've just been looking for one like this. It feels... rather serendipitous.”
― Nadia El-Fassi, Love at First Fright