Quotes About Perspective

He who laughs last didn't get it.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

Queer, how her own desperate need of light seemed to throw such brilliance over the affairs of the members of her family. She carried her need like a many-batteried pocket spotlight, illuminating emotional corners in other people, but she walked in darkness behind it. Her wrist wouldn't bend to turn it on herself.

the poetic moment is a static one. It's watching through a window while the action happens elsewhere. And then the poet turns away from the window because the poem is done ... It cannot unflinchingly stare grief down. At some point, by necessity, or design, it must turn away.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way.

If you pretend to feel a certain way, eventually you do feel that way. That has been a surprisingly pleasant lesson to learn in life.

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.

Just because I'm painfully honest does not mean I'm right.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

What science does is what I would like more literature to do too: show us that we are living in an exquisitely complicated world that is not all about us. It does not belong to us alone. It never has done.

When we meet animals for the first time, we expect them to conform to the stories we've heard about them. But there is always, always a gap. The boar was still a surprise. Animals are.

Most of all I hope my work is about a thing that seems to me of the deepest possible importance in our present-day historical moment: finding ways to recognise and love difference. The attempt to see through eyes that are not your own. To understand that your way of looking at the world is not the only one. To think what it might mean to love those that are not like you. To rejoice in the complexity of things.