Quotes About Perspective

It was not Death that stood before me but only Vernon Dickey, my father-in-law.

The ceiling angled down right over me and I raised my arm and touched it with my fingertips. All children, I thought, should be permitted to sleep in such a room; the child loves nooks and odd angles and is frightened into nightmare by equidistance, by parallel planes which conceal nothing.

Do we have to believe something happened exactly the way it was shown by artists?

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

He no longer describes the earth as a library globe or a map that has come alive, as a cosmic eye staring into deep space. The earth is land and water, the dwelling place of mortal men, in elevated dictionary terms. He doesn't see it anymore (storm-spiralled, sea-bright, breathing heat and haze and colour) as an occasion for picturesque language, for easeful play or speculation.

For most people there are only two places in the world. Where they live and their TV set. If a thing happens on television, we have every right to find it fascinating, whatever it is.

This is what long journeys are for. To see what's back behind you, lengthen the view, find the patterns, know the people, consider the significance of one matter or another and then curse yourself or bless yourself or tell yourself, in my father's situation, that you'll have a chance to do it all over again, with variations. He

I'm still sad, but you've given my sadness a richness and depth it has never known before.

Some people are scared by the sunsets, some determined to be elated, but most of us don't know how to feel, are ready to go either way.

The family is strongest where objective reality is most likely to be misinterpreted. What

But there are different kinds of death, David. And I prefer that kind, his kind, to the death I've been fighting all my life.

In a crisis the true facts are whatever other people say they are. No one's knowledge is less secure than your own.

Are you people telling me," Babette said, "that a rat is not only a vermin and a rodent but a mammal too?

The son of a bitch believes.

I am aware that when we see something, we are getting only a measure of information, a sense, an inkling of what is really there to see. I don't know the details or the terminology but I do know that the optic nerve is not telling the full truth. We're seeing only intimations. The rest is our invention, our way of constructing what is actual, if there is any such thing, philosophically, that we can call actual.

I was a kid and a little pedantic but I still maintain I had a point.

Referring to the church as a building is like referring to people as two-by-fours.

There's something about having limited horizons that makes everything right around you appear to be monumental and important, even if in reality it is relatively insignificant.

you want to know whether i believe in ghosts of course i do not believe in them if you had known as many of them as i have you would not believe in them either

How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like a sweet potato!-Taking the Longer View

I am never so happy aswhen I am broke, and lately I have been happy all the time. - Mehitabel the Cat

Our emotions act like a filter through which we see the rest of the world.

He looked at the stars again, and he realized that it's not the stars that create light, but rather light that creates the stars.

Mi možemo govoriti o ljubavi i o njoj napisati tisu?u knjiga, ali ljubav ?e biti sasvim druk?ija za svakoga od nas, jer je moramo iskusiti. U ljubavi nije rije? o na?elima, nego o djelima. Ljubav na djelu može stvarati samo sre?u. Strah na djelu može stvarati samo patnju.