Quotes About Perspective

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don't and live in a world I can only enter through words.

We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

People aren't going to vote for miserable gits in the corner saying how awful everything is.

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.

Some of the most miserable people I know are some of the richest people in America, they are the most miserable individuals I've ever seen.

My son ain't going to be miserable because he's going to be the child of a rock star, the end.

I read one too many books about Joy Division by people who weren't there, and they always seem to dwell on the dark, the intense, the miserable image of Joy Division.

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.

People who worry about stupid things, just end up looking miserable after a while - it shows.

Most comedy comes out of misery.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

If you don't take yourself seriously, you will die joyfully. If you take yourself seriously, you will go through a lot of misery.

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.

I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery.

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

People enjoy our misery so much, but honestly on those days, the days that you know that you're the one getting it, it's actually not a fun day for the person that's there. Everybody else is cool, the other three guys.

All my close friends are non-conformist. To say 'misfits' sounds bad, but there is something positive about being a little on the outside - it gives you an interesting perspective on things - and I think that's something Robyn and I share.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.