Quotes About Perspective

During summer, you wish you were in school so would have something to do. In school, you wish it was summer so you'd have nothing to do.

I hate when people in a commercial have more fun in 30 seconds than I will ever have in my whole life.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently.

When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.

Death is unbearable unless you can get beyond the I.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

Most people are not affected by [the death penalty]. It's like how many people are actually sent to Iraq and Afghanistan? Such a small percentage.

I think death is a big deal, obviously.

What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

The reason that you call it 'grief' is because you've been programmed to believe that you should feel bad about death.

how the French can talk. About a stew, about a fly on the parapet, about death, about anything.

It is a little disappointing to see that your legs are not as strong. But I like the idea of growing old, and the thought of approaching death is not particularly daunting to me.

Death is simply a change in perception. It is not an end to perception as a finite being.

Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached.

We should all live as if we were never going to die, for it is the deaths of our friends that hurt us, not our own.

I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

I myself become terrified of death when I am in a negative state of mind. But the thought of death ceases to bother me once I become productive.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

My dad's death reminds me of earthquakes - things that shake your foundation.

If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.

Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.

A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?""Well, sweetheart, " I tell her, "yes, but it hurts a lot more to keep living.