Rorschach Quotes

No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you? (Ken Kesey)

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Alan Watts

This conference was worse than a Rorschach test: There's a meaningless inkblot, and the others ask you what you think you see, but when you tell them, they start arguing with you!

Richard Feynman

History is a Rorschach test, people. What you see when you look at it tells you as much about yourself as it does about the past.

Jennifer Donnelly

I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to pretend it looked like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't.

Alan Moore

I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to pretend it looked like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn't. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that is avoiding the real horror. The horror is this: In the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness. We are alone. There is nothing else.

Alan Moore

Later that day, when Alice was off having a Rorschach, I asked, "How can a person who's never eaten honey have a family that can afford to send her here?” "Probably really incredibly crazy and interesting, so they let her in for less,” said Georgina.

Susanna Kaysen

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.

Lewis Mumford

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

John Battelle