Quotes About Perspective

Tenho todos os defeitos dos outros e, no entanto, tudo o que eles fazem parece-me inconcebível.

A única confissão sincera é aquela que fazemos indirectamente - ao falarmos dos outros.

Also, that men fall into two classes--those who forget views and those who remember them, even in small rooms.

there are shadows because there are hills.

There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it.

It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.

My father says that there is only one perfect view — the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.

People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.

One can tip too much as well as too little, indeed the coin that buys the exact truth has not yet been minted.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art.

For the dead, who seem to take away so much, really take with them nothing that is ours.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element - direct observation. Do not learn anything about this subject of mine - the French Revolution. Learn instead what I think that Enicharmon thought Urizen thought Gutch thought Ho-Yung thought Chi-Bo-Sing thought Lafcadio Hearn thought Carlyle thought Mirabeau said about the French Revolution.

Happy Charlotte, who, though greatly troubled over things that did not matter, seemed oblivious to things that did...

Man is the measure. That was my first lesson. Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

But books meant so much for him he forgot that they were a bewilderment to others.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterward.

Italian in the mouth of Italians is a deep-voiced stream, with unexpected cataracts and boulders to preserve it from monotony. In Mr. Eager's mouth it resembled nothing so much as an acid whistling fountain which played ever higher and higher, and quicker and quicker, and more and more shrilly, till abruptly it was turned off with a click.

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.