Quotes About Perspective

Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.

If one clung too closely to reality, the result might well be far from realistic.

There are all kinds of life, and sometimes the other side of the hill looks greener. What's hardest for me is not knowing what living like this will ever come to.

What we mean when we say terrible conditions is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.

More than iron doors, more than walls, it is the tiny peephole that really makes the prisoner feel locked in

The reason men somehow go on living, enduring the gaze of others, is that they bargain on the hallucinations and inexactitude of human eyes.

Dar chiar ÅŸi cu bilete dus-întors, dac? punctul de plecare era diferit, destinaÅ£ia era, fireÅŸte, ÅŸi ea diferit?. Åži n-ar fi deloc straniu dac? biletul lui de întoarcere ar fi de fapt biletul ei de plecare.

Fiecare îÅŸi are propria lui filosofie, care nu i se potriveÅŸte decît lui.

How much significance could the roadway to others have when death was closer than one's companions?

Dac? ÅŸi gazeta era o fereastr? deschis? spre lumea din afar?, atunci geamul ei era îngheÅ£at.

the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who has lost his sight in adulthood.

For it is not true that one has the right to be loved by the person one loves, as the poets say.

it's probably a good thing to go to the movies occasionally. The whole audience puts on the actor's face. No one needs his own. A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while.

Loneliness - since I was trying to escape it - was hell; and yet for the hermit who seeks it, it is apprently happiness.

just as, in the dark, one sees only darkness whether one keeps his eyes open or shut, looks right or left.

When the sister said that the sea was expressionless, the brother answered that that was not true at all, that it was the best of talkers.

In any situation the right solution isn't the only one.

Well, let's go out! Let's go into a new world, someone else's world, through someone else's face.

I guess you're right. I can look at photo albums and get a reasonable idea of what I was like when I was three years old, or when I was a newborn.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

I don't think there is such a thing as an intelligent mega-rich person. For who with a fine mind can look out upon this world and hoard what can nourish a thousand souls.

Divinity is only in the eye of the beholder

How can I—how can an insignificant little dewdrop on the grass ever aspire to the sun? How would it ever come to pass?" "Indeed; there's no comparing them, after all. But the dewdrop does capture the vast, seething ball of fire within itself, doesn't it?

He sighed impatently. 'You simplify everything, being without understanding. Your views are so limited it is impossible to explain to you.' 'Limited, yes,' I agreed. Yet not wholly without understanding. Our ways are not your ways.