Quotes About Perspective

Nobody seems to understand that in such matters the tact and sympathy should come from the one who is about to die, not the poor bugger who has to take the news.

We envy people who are extremely old because we wish to live that long, not because we want to be that old.

It is better to be sorrowful than sad.

The sadness sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

How was your afternoon?""No one died, so it was a big improvement on my morning.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!""We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)

When you're young your reality is accepted by most. When you're older, your reality changes and that seems to upset most people.

I feel more alive now than I did while on earth. I am coming to terms with the notion that death is truly another word for opportunity.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

But we do not need to recount every sermon and eulogy. After all, you were there.

If nothing lasts then everything has meaning. If everything dies that means we actually live.

She didn't want to die. She couldn't imagine wanting to die…Death was for—for other people.

Isn't it strange, how one so afraid of contracting a fatal malady...should so earnestly wish for death, as well?

suicide is not just killing yourself, but the world outside

All the people we loved, who have died, are still alive in the past. The only thing that really separates us is time. It's a matter of perspective. That's what separates optimism and pessimism.

To hear how much of a great human being you were — even if you really weren't — open your ears at your funeral.

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

Until we're pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything's coming up roses — for me and for you.

The grass is always greener on the other side of personal extinction.

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?

For me, concept of death works as a liberator from anxiety -- no matter whatever is happening, its all going to end when we die.