Quotes About Perspective

Contentment is a very underrated feeling, but you only learn that as you get older, and with it comes regret that it took you so long to realize what you'd been missing.

From high in the air, London would look just like a model, with toy houses and miniature trees on tiny streets. Maybe that was the only way you could drop the bombs: by pretending that it wasn't real, that nobody would burn and die when they exploded below.

He thought of the old commonplace about how giving up vices didn't make you live longer, but just made it feel as though you were living longer.

All cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.

cynics were once romantics. Most of them still are.

People who believe in buried gods,' said Louis. 'Do you believe in buried gods, Detective Walsh?' 'I'm Episcopalian. I believe in everything.

gags old before they were told

Most people are not bad. Oh, they do bad things sometimes, and we all have a little badness in us, but very few people are unspeakably evil, and most of the bad things they do seem perfectly reasonable to them at the time. Perhaps they're bored, or selfish, or greedy, but, for the most part, they don't actually want to hurt anyone when they do bad things. They just want to make their own lives a little easier.

He is not bitter. Never that. Babe would have said it was not worth becoming bitter, and Babe would have been right. But he is sad, sad that they do not care as much as he does.

We see our own mortality only through the prism of the mortality of others.

To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium.)

In the end, the truth doesn't matter.

I've started to believe that most people do what they think is right. The problems arise when what they do is right for themselves, but not what's right for others.

Behold not Death's Heads til thou doest not see them, nor look upon mortifying objects til thou overlook'st them.

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may,—light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.

How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

the soundness of an argument depends on its content and logical structure rather than on who offers it.

There is no morality in war. Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. War is only death and destruction.

How can we lead the blind, if we are blind ourselves? His wine is coming to blur our vision, so that we can receive His vision.

path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where you've been on it is only another. Some of the stories are pleasant ones; some are not. That's dark and light.

Seen from inside the bar, the avenue, the stores opposite, the street glimpsed going off at right angles, the trapezoid of sky visible above the lower buildings, are altered by the tinted windows into an elsewhere, oddly peaceful, a desert or the interior of the sea. Sometimes when he has fallen asleep face upward in the sun, his dreams have taken on this quality of supernatural bright darkness. ("Novelty")

Divorced?' 'Separated.' He tested his thumb against the pricks of the rose. 'Women. They say you got all the freedom. Then you give them their freedom, and they don't want it.' ("Novelty")