Quotes About Perspective

We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delinaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

Without the past to cast its long shadow, might you see the future more clearly?

when people are expecting to see nothing that is usually what they see.

There must be more to stories than you think.

I looked out into the dead garden. Against the fading light, my shadow hovered in the glass, looking into the dead room. What did she make of us? I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuade ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?

Kita semua memiliki kesedihan kita sendiri, dan walaupun kontur, bobot, serta dimensinya berbeda-beda bagi setiap orang, warna kesedihan adalah sama bagi kita semua.

but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.

We live like latecomers at the theatre; we must catch up as best we can, dividing the beginning from the shape of later events.

Todos tenemos nuestros dolores, y aunque la forma, el peso y las dimensiones del dolor son diferentes para cada persona, el color del dolor es común a todos nosotros.

Kita hidup seperti penonton yang datang terlambat ke bioskop: kita harus mengejar ketertinggalan sebaik-baiknya, menebak permulaan dari bentuk peristiwa-peristiwa lanjutannya.

I wondered. What did she think of our attempts to persuader ourselves that this was life and that we were really living it?

Everybody has a story

He put an arm around me, I know, he said. I know. He didn't know, of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what he meant. We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. I know, he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

So much science has at its root the ability to see afresh what has been seen and thought to be understood for centuries.

For me, to see is to read. It has always been that way.

I had realized that while books are extraordinary, writers themselves are no more or less special than anyone else.

but he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood. My

Let me spell it out for you. When a man's got something he don't give tuppence about and another man wants it enough, thruppence will usually do it.

Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won't be the truth; it will be a story.

We all have our sorrows, and although the exact delineaments, weight and dimensions of grief are different for everyone, the color of grief is common to us all. "I know," he said, because he was human, and therefore, in a way, he did.

How horribly dull. I could never have been a biographer. Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?" "Not in the stories you have told the world so far.

To make it true? Was it for me or for her that he made these thankless efforts to connect us? It was an impossible task.

I'm a storyteller." "I am a biographer.

Don't you think one can tell the truth much better with a story?