Quotes About Perspective

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Death means you are in the third person.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

The worst thing that can happen is death, and that's not the worst thing in the world either.

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over

In Gospel grammar, death is not an exclamation point, merely a comma.

Fifty per cent of all marriages end in divorce. But look at the bright side: the other 50 per cent end in death.

If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.

I think leaving [death] can be as joyous as - probably more joyous than - being born, because being born is very physically uncomfortable for the baby.

Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another... it's merely a transition.

If you know how to live, even death is good news

We do not lose our friends when they die, we only lose sight of them.

I don't really frick with Africa cause people are starving to death and that's not ballin' to me.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

I checked the actuarial tables, and the lowest death rate is among six-year-olds. So I decided to eat like a six-year-old.

Old age appears hideous to us until we have to choose between it and death.

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.