Quotes About Perspective

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. This of all miseries is the coldest.

The head which does not turn backwards towards horizons that have vanished contains neither thought nor love.

Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything.

Madame Magloire, retorted the Bishop, you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

A person may not want any more of his cake; but that is no reason for giving it away.

The wretchedness of a child interests a mother, the wretchedness of a young man interests a young girl, the wretchedness of an old man interests no one.

Neither was to blame for the way they felt, because Marius was someone who embraces sorry and dwells in it, but Cosette felt it deeply but recovered.

Cuando le ocurría alguna vez, porque, ¿a quién no le ocurre? Decir: -¡Oh. si fuese rico!- no lo decía nunca echando el lente a una joven bonita, como el señor Guillenormand, sino contemplando un libro.

He did not understand how men could busy themselves with hating each other because of silly stuff like the charter, democracy, legitimacy, monarchy, the republic, etc., when there were in the world all sorts of mosses, grasses, and shrubs which they might be looking at, and

What matters it if the earth be red! the moon remains white; these are the indifferences of the sky.

you are looking at a plain man and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.

Ser-se canhoto é circunstância digna de inveja

To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.

Police chiefs don't think a cat can possibly turn into a lion; and yet, it happens.

Factions are blind men who aim correctly.

Facts are sometimes like a hailstorm. They bombard you; they deafen you.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins.

God will reward you, he said. You must be an angel since you care for flowers. I'm no angel, she replied. I'm the devil, but it's all the same to me.

Todos los actos humanos tienen dos caras!

C'est une terrible chose d'être heureux! Comme on s'en contente! Comme on trouve que cela suffit! Comme, étant en possession du faux but de la vie, le bonheur, on oublie le vrai but, le devoir!

All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes dazzle, sometimes illuminate us.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.