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Quotes About Perspective

Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.
~ Jerry Hall
The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.
~ Janet Jackson
Dating a white girl is like dating a black girl if she were really passive-agressive.
~ Dov Davidoff
A lot of people wouldn't feel miserable in this environment. A lot of people aren't dating my girlfriend.
~ Dov Davidoff
Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?
~ Milarepa
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
~ Epicurus
Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
~ Philip II of Macedon
Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
~ Roland Barthes
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
~ Eben Alexander
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
~ Roland Barthes
I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.
~ Marilyn Manson
Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
~ Winston Churchill
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
~ Unknown
Keep Looking Up was my life's admonition, I can do little else in my present position.
~ Unknown
It's strange how death mocks us, that only in death do we cherish [the ones we love].
~ Unknown
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
~ Dave Barry
Call no man happy till he is dead.
~ Aeschylus
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
Life is like a very short visit to a toy shop between birth and death.
~ Desmond Morris
When you need an answer, look over your left shoulder and ask your death.
~ Carlos Castaneda
The death of contentment is comparison.
~ Steven Furtick
I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.
~ Gary Numan
An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
~ Charles Bukowski