Quotes About Perspective

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.

it is only in statistics that people die by the millions. Each person dies individually, in his own predicament.

You just can't complain about being alive. It's self-indulgent to be unhappy. When asked how she has coped since husband's death.

To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Why should I be worried about death?

It is when we are faced with death that we turn most bookish.

I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

We who think we are about to die will laugh at anything.

We live on the cusp of death Thinking it won't be us

maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--

When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.

It is rather interesting how you get used to death.

Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.