Quotes About Perspective

He says that for me things are simple, that everything will be fine, that I will get out of it, it's already written, that there's nothing to worry about, the world will greet me with open arms. Whereas for him there's a barrier, an impenetrable wall, forbidding him to deviate from what has been predetermined.

À ceux-là, en général, j'explique que la vraisemblance importe plus que la vérité, que la justesse compte davantage que l'exactitude et surtout qu'un lieu, ce n'est pas une topographie mais la manière dont on le raconte, pas une photographie mais une sensation, une impression.

On sent que cela monte, que l'explosion de colère est proche. Il dit qu'il n'admet pas l'emploi du « on ». Quoi ? « On » va guérir ? Qui ? Elle ? Elle est malade ? C'est quoi ce besoin biscornu de s'approprier un mal qui n'est pas le sien, dont elle ne sait rien ou presque, dont elle ne mourra pas ?

Later I will do the same with death. I will behave as if life will just continue. I will talk to a friend the day before he dies, imagining the future, even when he is emaciated, intubated, clearly on his deathbed. When I hear of his passing, it will always be a surprise to me.

One has an excellent view of the war from the windows at the Ritz.

Le problème, voyez-vous, c'est que quand on est grand, on oublie, on oublie presque tout, et on oublie surtout qu'on a été enfant.

When I see a dead bird," Hans Dorfer said to me, "and I pick it up in my hand, tears come into my eyes. I can't make them not come. Nothing can justify the death of a bird. But if my father croaked all of a sudden, right here, right next to me, I swear I'd dance around the table and buy you a drink. I swear.

Mais ici-bas, mieux vaut ne jamais avoir raison. C'est une chose qu'on vous fait ensuite toujours payer très cher.

Llorarlo es lanzar un puñado de vida a los ojos de la muerte. Sabes que sólo la cegará durante unos instantes, pero te alivia.

Prisimenu pagalvojau, kad akys nepavaldžios amžiui ir kad mes visad mirštame su vaiko akimis, kurios vien? dien? atsiv?r? pasauliui ir su juo nebesiskyr?.

when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life.

Life's managed, not cured.

Trying to get to the answer before one has understood all the right questions is a prime source of error in human affairs.

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I like the freedom that comes with lowered expectations.

He believed that Galileo was wrong when he imagined an Earth that revolved around the sun. In his heart of hearts, Peter knew that the sun that was slowly rising over his city revolved around him.

money is always important if you grow up without it.

After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

If you're sorry for her, that means you're putting yourself above her. Anything can be terrible if we make it terrible, or if we let other people tell us how terrible it is.

Most of my writing has been concerned with understanding between people. Whether of different races, or religions, or even in the same family I tried in my books...to deal with the subject of understanding the other fellow.