Quotes About Perspective

but it is always dreadful when the pictures in front of one's eyes become meaningless and the real word is there instead and seems meaningless, too.

I still didn't believe him. And for the moment, I didn't much care one way or the other. My whole mind had swung back to Simon.

Vicar: You ought to try [religion], one of these days, he said. I believe you'd like it. I said: but I have tried it, haven't I? I've been to church. It never seems to take.

He can be so appreciative of all forms of art, but so matter-of-fact and unemotional about it.

I really am just as discontented, but I don't seem to notice it so much.

But there is something I want to capture. It has to do with the feeling I had when I watched the Cottons coming down the lane, the queer separate feeling. I like seeing people when they can't see me. I have often looked at our family through lighted windows and they seem quite different, a bit the way rooms seen in looking-glasses do. I can't get the feeling into words — it slipped away when I tried to capture it.

ByÅ'o to fascynujÄ…ce, szczególnie sklepy z artykuÅ'ami papierniczymi - na nie mogÅ'abym patrze? bez koÅ"ca. Rose twierdzi, ?e to najnudniejsze sklepy na Å›wiecie, poza, by? mo?e, rze?nikiem. (Nie rozumiem, jak mo?na nazwa? sklepy rze?nicze nudnymi; sÄ… zbyt peÅ'ne okrucieÅ"stwa).

A thousand pounds for clothes — when one thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! Oddly, I have never thought of us as poor people — I mean, I have never been terribly sorry for us, as for the unemployed or beggars; though really we have been rather worse off, being unemployable and with no one to beg from.

I thought what a good man he is, yet never annoyingly holy. And it struck me for the first time that if such a clever, highly educated man can believe in religion, it is almost impudent of an ignorant person like me to feel bored and superior about it.

Bad times don't last long. It's all about how you look at the situation. You can either get stuck in that shit or move past it. It's good that you pushing through.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.

There's always more to it. This is what history consists of. It is the sum total of the things they aren't telling us.

I was always younger than anyone around me. One day it began to change.

The term itself—my life—is a desperate overstatement.

What was the barn like before it was photographed?' he said. 'What did it look like, how was it different from other barns, how was it similar to other barns? We can't answer these questions because we've read the signs, seen the people snapping the pictures. We can't get outside the aura. We're part of the aura. We're here, we're now.

Isn't death a blessing? Doesn't it define the value of our lives, minute to minute, year to year?

When it rains out, it also rains in.

If Greek and Latin characters are paving stones, Arabic is rain.

I am advising you in this matter not only as your chief of finance, but as a woman who would still be married to her husbands if they had looked at her the way you have looked at me here today.

You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool.

This is what love comes down to, things that happen and what we say about them.

Jessie was trying to read science fiction but nothing she read so far could begin to match ordinary life on this planet, she said, for sheer unimaginableness.

A film can be undermined by the person you're seeing it with, there in the dark, a ripple effect of attitude, scene by scene, shot by shot.