Quotes About Perspective

What if all our anger and fear is unwarranted? What if world events are unfolding in perfect order to deliver us to a distant joy we can't conceive of at this time? Please consider that the next ending will be the happy one.

It's fucking weird, hearing somebody's died tomorrow. Like you could still call that commuter man, right now, in Moscow, and say: "Stay home!

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

All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. Oh, but now there was dying and death and loss and grief. Weeping and shuddering, terror and remorse. Now that she knows where we're all going, Marla feels every moment of her life.

A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.

I'm in love with a beautiful sex-crazed slut so why can't you just be happy for me?

I know, I know, in that totally archetypal Tom Sawyer scenario it's supposed to be way satisfying to attend your own funeral and witness how everyone secretly loved and adored you, but the sad truth is that most people are just as fakey-fake to you after you're dead as when you're alive.

what makes life feel like Hell is our expectation that it should last forever.

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect.

Se zavÃ…â"¢enýma o?ima se ptám, jestli ví, jak to vÅ¡echno dopadne. "DlouhodobÄ› nebo krátkodobÄ›?" odpoví otázkou. Oboje. "DlouhodobÄ› vzato" vykládá, "vÅ¡ichni zemÃ…â"¢eme. Pak se naÅ¡e tÄ›la rozloží Žádné pÃ…â"¢ekvapení. KrátkodobÄ› vzato budeme žít Å¡Å¥astnÄ›, dokud neumÃ…â"¢eme.

Jestli nÄ›co musíme udÄ›lat, tak rozházet lidem jejich ubohá paradigmata totožnosti.

S ?ímkoliv, co si poÃ…â"¢ídíÅ¡, vykládá, získáÅ¡ jenom jednu vÄ›c navíc, kterou pak ztratíÅ¡.

Qué sería de Jesús si nadie hubiera escrito los Evangelios?

Ich hatte die ganze Zeit gedacht, die beiden ziehen über meinen Großvater her, aber dann wurde mir klar, die meinten mich. Das heißt, natürlich meinten sie irgendeinen verrückten Killer, aber das war immer noch ich, die ich da in Häschenpantoffeln und Pelzmantel saß.

Young people want mirrors. Older people want art. If I couldn't see myself, my world, in Cheever or Gatsby, I rejected them.

Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe you until the event. Until it's too late.

hope is just another phase you'll grow out of. Who

Instead of writing about a character, write from within the character.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

Your perception is all fucked up," Brandy says. "All you can talk about is trash that's already happened.

Se eu pudesse acordar em outro lugar, numa outra época, seria outra pessoa?

The only thing that makes earth feel like Hell, or Hell feel like Hell, is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.