Quotes About Perspective

Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?

La obsesión de colocarnos en el centro de todo es la ruina tanto de los teólogos como de los zoólogos.

At one point I turned to the French language, which gave me the gender of all things. But to no satisfaction. I would readily agree that trucks and murders were masculine while bicycles and life were feminine. But how odd that a breast was masculine. And it made little sense that garbage was feminine while perfume was masculine — and no sense at all that television, which I would have deemed repellently masculine, was in fact feminine. When

On occasion we say to ourselves, panting, 'Gosh, life is racing by.' But that's not it at all, it's the contrary: life is still. It is we who are racing by.

Be excessively reasonable and you risk throwing out the universe with the bathwater.

One such time I left town and on my way back, at a point where the land was high and I could see the sea to my left and down the road a long ways, I suddenly felt I was in heaven. The spot was in fact no different from when I had passed it not long before, but my way of seeing it had changed.

Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness.

No! No! No! My suffering does matter. I want to live! I can't help but mix my life with that of the universe. Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness - how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view I have of things? This peephole is all I've got!

You will always see less as you grow older, otherwise you would not want to go on.

I look at his bloodshot eyes and wonder if it affects what he sees, everything covered by a veil of red lace that his hands can't ever lift.

Nous, les Arabes, ne sommes pas paresseux. Nous prenons seulement le temps de vivre. Ce qui n'est pas le cas des Occidentaux. Pour eux, le temps, c'est de l'argent. Pour nous, le temps ça n'a pas de prix. Un verre de thé suffit à notre bonheur, alors qu'aucun bonheur ne leur suffit. Toute la différence est là.

If you haven't lost your mind yet, that's because you haven't seen very much.

There's nothing, absolutely nothing, more important than your life. And your life isn't more important than other people's lives.

I have sired a well-adapted man (read: adapted to everyone except his father).

Sarà per via dell'Antrios, sarà stato l'acquisto dell'Antrios?... No... Il male viene da molto più lontano... Viene dal giorno in cui hai usato, senza un briciolo di ironia, il termine decostruzione, riferendoti a un oggetto d'arte. E non è stato il termine decostruzione a irritarmi, ma la gravità con cui l'hai pronunciato. Lo hai detto, amico mio, con solennità, con convinzione, senza la minima ironia: decostruzione .

Experts flatten the world.

Día tras día el mundo me ha empequeñecido y hoy es el mundo el que se empequeñece en mí. Así es. La muerte triunfa poco a poco. Nos vamos acostumbrando. Nos vamos acostumbrando a la muerte.

My child, after a certain age, everything is the same as everything else and there's nothing that serves as a goal anymore.

Grant me immoderation, the only way to save what we can of what we're given. The hell with equity.

She's one of those people who think happiness is legitimate.

El tiempo corre de la misma manera para todos los seres humanos; pero todo ser humano flota de distinta manera en el tiempo.

Don't you worry about other people's problems.

It would be odd to explain, now that he had come to the house, that for an old man who was no longer a man, to keep company with a girl who had been put to sleep was "not a human relationship.

Timpul se scurge la fel pentru toti, dar fiecare curge diferit in timp.