Quotes About Perspective

Suppose you was someplace that you didnt know where it was. The real thing you wouldnt know was where someplace else was. Or how far it was. It wouldnt change nothin about where you was at.

The old man swung his head back and forth. The way of the transgressor is hard. God made this world but he didn't make it to suit everybody, did he? I don't believe he much had me in mind. Aye, said the old man. But where does a man come by his notions. What world's he seen that he liked better?

La gente si lamenta sempre delle cose brutte che gli capitano senza che se le sia meritate ma non parla mai delle cose belle. Di cosa ha fatto per meritarle. Io non ricordo di aver mai dato a nostro Signore motivi particolari per sorridermi. Però lui mi ha sorriso.

To see God everywhere is to see Him nowhere

He said that far from making men reflective or wise it was his experience that death often leads them to attribute great consequence to trivial things.

People from the other side will seem odd to you. And you will never understand the latitude which they extend to you.

Bright people often have a good load to carry. But boredom is seldom a part of it. It's all right. I'm always pleased to see just that small bit deeper. You deny our brotherhood. Insisting as you do in your sly way that our genealogies and our socioeconomic standings have set us apart at birth in a manner not to be contravened. But I will tell you Squire that having read even a few dozen books in common is a force more binding than blood.

A lawyer aint a priest. Nor a doctor. Law's more vagrant than sickness or sin. We make our case. We'd be fools to say what a dozen other fools might think of it.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did he see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And whether in Caborca or in Huisiachepic or in whatever other place by whatever other name or by no name at all I say again all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.

Los recuerdos de los hombres son inciertos y el pasado que fue difiere muy poco del pasado que no fue.

I told Leonard that reality was at best a collective hunch.

sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

Such as. Do you ever think what it would be like to meet a person you've known for a long time for the first time in these later years? To meet them anew. You're thinking they would be a much different person to you if you didnt know their history. Yes. How would it differ from when you first met them? That's not it. We're talking about them as they are now. Only with a past unknown to us.

You dont want to be the youngest. I can tell you right now. There aint no percentage in it. They

I was unhappy as a child for reasons that are no longer important.

There's a lot of things look better at a distance

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

How does the never to be differ from what never was

Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not -Judge Holden

What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.

Yeah, well. I know this is probably as good as it's goin to get and I'm a pretty grateful motherfucker.

I began to see how the world must become if I were to live in it.

You will never know what the world is made of. The only thing that's certain is that it's not made of the world. As you close upon some mathematical description of reality you can't help but lose what is being described.