Quotes About Perspective

Charlotte views her younger selves with a certain detachment. They are herself, but other incarnations, innocents going about half-forgotten business.

A cup of coffee, a cigarette, the penetrating aroma of its smoke, myself sitting in a shadowy room with eyes half-closed...I want no more from life than my dreams and this...It doesn't seem much? I don't know. What do I know about what is little and what is a lot?

For any spirit of scientific bent, seeing more in something that is actually there is actually to see less. What you add in substance, you take away in spirit.

figuring out was is real isn't always possible, because our own brains are telling us stories

None of it seemed very real, but I suppose that's the trouble with history. It's the one thing we have to make up for ourselves.

The fall of Venice was just a change in its historical identity. We cannot say that it was a disgrace or triumph, because we do not know who in the end is triumphant and who is disgraced.

But 'if ' is not a word to use in history.

Water is a great leveller...On water all are at an equal level.

The writing of history is often another way of defining chaos.

This will become the story of a young woman, Karin Weinbrenner. Her story is not mine, but sometimes her story feels like the armature my life has wound itself around. I am telling it, so this story is also about me.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving the old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.

What had once seemed shallow and tedious now loomed in memory like paradise.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky, The shark is gone.

There are no old movies really - only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't.

What is called gluttony in one man is a healthy appetite in someone else.

Because the search for happiness can be like the search for your spectacles when they're sittin' on your

Public facts are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.

Reality is defined not as something that exists out there for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.

No. It happened. But if it simplifies your life to disbelieve it, then do so.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

If you expect the worst, you can only be suprised

There is no such thing as a "good man." Good for what? is the question.