Quotes About Perspective

The facts of life are simple and trivial. Only our imagination gives life to them. It makes the laundry pole of facts a flagstaff of dreams.

His misfortune was that he saw a cherry tree in a garden.

Aga nii see inimene on: hindab ainult seda, millest ilma jääb.

See, mida sa kätte ei saa, paistab alati paremini kui see, mis käes on. Selles seisnebki inimese elu romantika ning idiotism.

Iga elatud päev tähendab üks päev vähem olemasolu.

It's odd,' she murmured, 'but as long as we don't forget that we're falling and falling, nothing is lost. Life seems to love paradoxes - when we think we're perfectly safe, we're always ridiculous and on the verge of a tumble; but when we know we're lost, life showers gifts on us. Then we don't have to do a thing - it runs after us like a poodle.

It's funny how much of the miseries of this world are caused by short people –they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on than the tall ones.

Žmogus nesi jau toks svarbus. - Nesvarbus? - Švarcas v?l pak?l? sutrikus? veid?. - Nesvarbus? Žinoma, ne! Bet malon?kite pasakyti man, kas gi tuomet svarbu, jeigu gyvenimas nebesvarbus? - Niekas, - atsakiau žinodamas, kad tai ir teisyb?, ir ne. - Tiktai mes patys suteikiame viskam vert?.

There were thousands of Kantoreks, all of whom were convinced that they were acting for the best - in a way that cost them nothing. And that is why they us down so badly.

Noored ei tahagi, et neid mõistetataks; nad tahavad jääda sellisteks nagu nad on. Täiskasvanu, kes neile liiga pealetükkivalt läheneb, muutub nende silmis niisama naeruväärseks kui lapsekleiti kandes. Me võime tunda koos noortega, kuid noored ei tunne koos meiega. See on nende pääsemine.

Und was Sie auch haben – nehmen Sie es nicht zu wichtig. Es gibt wenig, das lange wichtig bleibt." Die Frau sah ihn an. Sie trank nicht. "Es ist so", sagte Ravic. "Besonders nachts. Die Nacht übertreibt.

I like being alone best, with no one to disturb me. Because everyone always comes round to the same topic of conversation, how badly things are going, how well they are going, one thinks this way, the next person the other way – and they quickly get on to the things that make up their own worlds. I'm sure that I was just like them myself, before; but now I can't find any real point of contact. - Paul Baumer

Happiness lies all around us. We only have to pick it up.

Why doesn't she stop worrying? Kemmerich will stay dead whether she knows about it or not. When a man has seen so many dead he cannot understand any longer why there should be so much anguish over a single individual.

Yes, I think bitterly, that's how it is with us, and with all poor people. They don't dare ask the price, but worry themselves dreadfully beforehand about it; but the others, for whom it is not important, they settle the price first as a matter of course.

Ta?u laikam gan ir t?, ka atseviš?a cilv?ka n?ve vienm?r ir n?ve, bet divu miljonu n?ve - vienm?r tikai statistika.

Wir haben den Sinn für andere Zusammenhänge verloren, weil sie künstlich sind. Nur die Tatsachen sind richtig und wichtig für uns.

Then what exactly is the war for?" asks Tjaden. Kat shrugs his shoulders. "There must be some people to whom the war is useful.

Kaži mi, Georg - pitam kad smo skrenuli u Hakenštrase, - Jesi li ti stvarno sre?an? Georg Krol skine šešir ne?emu nevidljvom u no?i. -Drugo pitanje! - kaže on. - Koliko se može izdržati sede?i na vrhu igle?

While they continued to write and talk, we saw the wounded and dying. While they taught that duty to one's country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger.

Nikad ne treba da me ?ekaš. Strašno je ?ekati. - Ti, Robi, baš ništa ne razumeš. Strašno je samo kad nema šta da se ?eka.

K?das ir j?su domas par dz?vi? [Ludvigs jaut? z?rciniekam Vilkem] - No r?ta cit?das nek? vakar?, ziem? cit?das nek? vasar?, pirms ?šanas cit?das nek? p?c tam un jaun?b? droši vien cit?das nek? vecum?.

Postoji jedna tajna koja se ne zna unapred: uvek se dobija više nego što se daje - ali kad bi se to znalo unapred, ne bi se dobilo ništa.

There must be some people to whom the war is useful." "Well, I'm not one of them