Quotes About Perspective

He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I'd known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn't holding my breath.

either you're a whore, or you think I am. The first I'm willing to believe. The second I know isn't true.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

Death, especially violent death, will turn the meanest bastard in the world into a nice guy. Why is that?

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow

Pretend I asked, now answer the question...

I just love dealing with people whose idea of sometimes is every thousand years," I said.

If I wanted death, Edward would give it to me. Because we both understand that it isn't death that we fear. It's living.

Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you.

Is death such a high price to pay, when you will die anyway?

Worry about the things you can control; the rest will either work themselves out, or they'll kill you. Either way, no more worries.

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

I thought we were the good guys," he said, and it had that note of a child who finally realizes that sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites, as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way, and it looks good, another way, and it's evil. Sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

Ignorance isn't bliss, but neither is knowledge. Sometimes you just know more, but it doesn't make you any happier.

You just wanted to walk in front of me so I'd have to stare at your butt

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Judge for yourself. I've hated him and tried to love him for so many years I can't see him clearly.

Remember, that the darkness is not bad, just different, and all that is good, or bad, is there in the light, or the dark, only our perception changes.

I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace

Graves are for the living, not the dead.

I didn't believe in happily-ever-after, but I did believe in happier-than-we'd-ever-been, because I was living it.

She laughed that joyous full-blown sound that children eventually grow out of, as if the world bleeds the joy from them. Unless we're very lucky, the world teaches us to laugh more quietly, more coyly.