Quotes About Perspective

When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You'll find out for yourself soon enough. It won't help the situation for you to get all upset.

Kids, she says. When they're little, they believe everything you tell them about the world. As a mother, you're the world almanac and the encyclopedia and the dictionary and the Bible, all rolled up together. But after they hit some magic age, it's just the opposite. After that, you're either a liar or a fool or a villain.

Also consider that someday, when you're dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

The problem with every story is you tell it after the fact.

I want you to invent it. I want you to have that skill. To create your own reality. Your own set of laws. I want to try and teach you that.

There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

the world is the cradle and your trap.

No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

Even if you tell yourself Today I'm going to drink coffee the wrong way ... from a dirty boot. Even that would be right, because you chose to drink coffee from that boot. Because you can do nothing wrong. You are always right. Even when you say, I'm such an idiot, I'm so wrong... you're right. You're right about being wrong. You're right even when you're an idiot. No matter how stupid your idea, you're doomed to be right because it's yours.

In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to blink against.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.