Quotes About Perspective

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.

His Highness looks at Denny and says, "Those glasses you're wearing, do you need them?" "Only to see with," Denny says.

Noth­ing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list

Everything is nothing by itself.

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Echo Lawrence(Party Crasher): If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favourite saying was 'The future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.' Shot Dunyun(Party Crasher): That's bullshit. Rant's favourite saying was 'Some people are just born human. The rest of us, we take a lifetime to get there.

Little voice gives us the facts. Big voice gives us the meaning—or at least a character's subjective interpretation of the events.

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can't control life, at least you can control your version.

I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, no, that's not right. Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

Who you are moment to moment is just a story.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.

There are a lot of good reasons to live, I tell her, and hope she won't ask for a list.

We all live by different clocks and calendars.

If you wake up at a different time in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own.

With the elevator stopped between floors, my view is about a cockroach above the green linoleum, and from here at cockroach level the green corridor stretches toward the vanishing point, past half-open doors where titans and their gigantic wives drink barrels of champagne and bellow to each other wearing diamonds bigger than I feel.

you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.

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.

Es gracioso que la belleza del arte tenga mucho más que ver con el marco que con la obra de arte en sí misma.

The murderer, the victim, the witness, each of us thinks our role is the lead.

what you can't understand you can make mean anything.

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

Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.

there's worse ways to be dead than dying.