Quotes About Perspective

I just met a wonderful new man, he is fictional but you can't have everything

Subjectivity is objective.

Yeah, that's what the present is. It's a little unsatisfying because life's a little unsatisfying.

Inez: You always take the side of the help. That's why Daddy says you're a communist.

If I got a paper cut, that's a tragedy. If you fell down an open manhole and died, that's comedy.

This is my perspective and has always been my perspective on life: I have a very grim, pessimistic view of it. I always have, since I was a little boy. It hasn't gotten worse with age or anything. I do feel that it's a grim, painful, nightmarish, meaningless experience, and that the only way that you can be happy is if you tell yourself some lies and deceive yourself.

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But the arguments we had over free will and monads, while heated, were never as combatative as the ones we had over our marriage. I knew I was in trouble when, in one philosophical discussion, Harlene proved I didn't exist.

Muerte (Una comedia) Anna: Mientras no se trate de algo agradable, ningún momento es el adecuado

He opened my eyes to just how great S. J. Perelman was, superior to all other funny minds, an axiom I hold to this day.

To a human, the fall-colored leaves are gorgeous. To a red or yellow leaf, I can guarantee they find the green ones lovelier.

To be loved, certainly, is different from being admired, as one can be admired from afar but to really love someone it is essential to be in the same room with the person, crouching behind the drapes.

Dylan was no longer seven but a grown woman of thirty-plus. Mind you, I have not been allowed to see her, speak to her, or correspond with her for twenty-three years. Everything she has heard about me since barely turning seven has been taught to her by Mia.

I am one who shares Saul Bellow's estimate of Hemingway rather than John Updike's. I could pick up any book of his and turn to any page and read and the poetry of his prose kills me.

Her preference was to go by pistol shot, mine by placing my head in the dishwasher and pressing Full Cycle.

I'm an alarmist, not a hypochondriac

Not long after the custody hearing Wilk died of a brain tumor, which was ironic as I was asked early on in the proceedings, by a magazine, if losing the custody of the children wasn't the worst thing that could happen to me, and I said no, the worst thing would be getting an inoperable brain tumor.

People believe what is important for them to believe, and each person has his or her own reason, sometimes not even known to them.

Well, as someone who's never had any interest in a legacy, what can I say? I'm eighty-four; my life is almost half over. At my age, I'm playing with house money.

Soon-Yi will be the first to tell you in over twenty years of marriage, and the many disagreements we've had, I have never once been right on a single issue.

I was with Billy Graham once, and he said that even if it turned out in the end that there is no God and the universe is empty, he would still have had a better life than me. I understand that. If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life.

Some people see the glass half empty, some see it half full. I always saw the coffin half full.

No es que tenga miedo de morir, es que no quiero estar aquí cuando ocurra.

Attempts to deescalate the situation did not work, and I guess it's easy for me to say as she was the hurt party, but where she took this rage crossed the line from understandable to unforgivable and then to unconscionable. Not only was it malignant to me but horrendous for poor Dylan, who had just turned seven and was too young to have any perspective.