Quotes About Perspective

Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird.

I'm grateful when stories come in a rush, although I keep an eye on them afterwards, to see whether they hold together. It's harder to judge the ones that took so long to finish. With those, I've lost perspective. Mostly I'm just glad that I can be done with them.

Giraffes don't play golf.

Having multiple personalities is the only way I can justify talking to myself.

Vision is three-dimensional - consisting of insight, foresight, and perspective.

We are all guilty of using the present to create a future that justifies the past.

Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.

A long time ago a bunch of people reached a general consensus as to what's real and what's not and most of us have been going along with it ever since.

Everything is the way it is because we've all agreed that's the way it is.

Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

The years that had passed had displayed vividly before our eyes the fickleness of human attitudes.

my delight in philology, my insistence on having language clear-cut and exact, impels me, when someone says it is cold and someone else that it is warm, to look at the thermometer and say: "Gentlemen, it is 69 degrees Fahrenheit in this room.

Speran?a este un sfetnic prost.

Er) hat in unbegreiflicher Verblendung übersehen, daß ein Mensch auch ohne selbstständige Ideen und ohne Persönlichkeit in dem Augenblick Wesen und Inhalt annimt, in dem man Macht auf ihn überträgt.

Optimists were optimistic, pessimists pessimistic, and the in-betweens listened to the optimists one day and to the pessimists the next.

To listen to his subtle comments on events of the present was like listening to a gentleman from the Biedermeier period expressing opinions about a modern airplane factory.

My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

I have never in all my life considered you other people.

Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.