Quotes About Perspective

What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially if he has had between four and seven beers.

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.

We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.

Sad is his lot, who, once at least in his life, has not been a poet.

You are sad in the midst of every blessing. Take care that Fortune does not observe--or she will call you ungrateful.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was: "I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad."

It will be a sad day for the world when the Oriental gent realizes that Western bumbling is only Eastern guile in a different idiom. Well, a lot of it, anyway.

Maybe it's sad that these are now memories. And maybe it's not sad.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

It would be great if teenagers could make movies. It's sad how some writers think they can write about stuff they don't understand.

You have a choice in this world, I believe, about how to tell sad stories, and we made the funny choice.

It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.

What you get will never make you happy; who you become will make you very happy or very sad.

It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So there's a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures.

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad.

Things I Want to Happen After I die: You're allowed to be sad, but you're not allowed to be too sad. If you're always sad when you think about me, then how can you remember me? —Sam McQueen

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

Why don't people just accept that life is sad and cheer up? After all, it's not going to last for ever.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.