Quotes About Perspective

Live long enough, you see everything ruined.

There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing." Isern carved a little piece of chagga from a dried-out chunk. "Like most things, it's a matter of how you look at it." "Very profound." "As always." "Maybe someone whose head hurt less would enjoy your wisdom more.

Bad news is never a surprise. Just a disappointment.

I don't see what I want to see, I see what I need to see. If you don't like it, see something else

Drink and I have had some long and painful conversations and found we simply can't agree.' 'Drink and I can't agree either.' She shrugged and tossed it down herself. 'But we keep on having the argument.

Every hero is someone's villain

The thing about rowing, you face backward. Always looking into the past, never the future. Always seeing what you're losing, never what you've got to gain.

People like things that are simple. Black and white. Good and evil. They want to make a choice and tell themselves they were right. But as His Eminence is fond of saying, the real world is painted in greys. The truth is complicated, full of mixed emotions and blurred outcomes and each-way bets. The truth… is a hard sell.

All times are end times for someone.

Honour, eh? What the hell is that anyway? Every man thinks it's something different. You can't drink it. You can't fuck it. The more of it you have the less good it does you, and if you've got none at all you don't miss it.

It's easy to scream about the fence when you're on the wrong side of it. Some mad twist of fortune lands you on the right side, though, the fence starts to look like it might not be such a bad idea. Might even be worth all the sacrifices. Other people's sacrifices aren't that hard to make.

It's worth giving your enemies a chance. They know they can't expect one and might be thankful for it." Rikke frowned sideways. "Friends are much harder to please.

Your trouble is, you've got yourself an idea about how life should be, but it's just not how life IS.

On the right side of history, maybe. Vick snorted. The thing about history is you don't know what the right side is till long afterwards, and by then it hardly matters. That's the sort o' thing you hear from folk who know they're on the wrong side.

Nada es para siempre. La vida consiste en aprovechar bien lo que te encuentras en el camino. Si un hombre no está satisfecho con lo que tiene… bueno, muy posiblemente tampoco se quedará satisfecho con lo que no tiene. - Brand

It is easy to forget how much you have, when your eyes are always fixed on what you have not. "Something

When men say things used to be better, they invariably mean they were better for them, because they were young, and had all their hopes intact.

Well." Glokta looked towards the summer revellers. So near to them, yet somehow in a different world. "I have often said that life is the misery we endure between disappointments.

Folk aren't just cowards or heroes. They're both and neither, depending on how things stand. Depending on who stands with them, who stands against. Depending on the life they've had. The death they see waiting.

Her father gave a sad smile at that. "Believe it or not, we all want what's best. The root o' the world's ills is that no one can agree on what it is.

But far as I can tell it ain't that simple. Right things, wrong things, well… it's all a matter of where you stand. Every choice is good for some, bad for others. And once you're chief, you can't just do what's good for you, or those you love. You have to find what's best for most. Worst for fewest.

My old mentor Sazine once told me you should laugh every moment you live, for you'll find it decidedly difficult afterwards.

Even for me. There's nothing like the company of someone even more wretched than yourself to make you feel better. Trouble is, take their misery away and your own presses in twice as cold and dreary behind it.

Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero.