Quotes About Perspective

How come we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

They who drink beer will think beer.

It seemed funny that the sunset she saw from her patio and the one I saw from the back steps was the same one. Maybe the two worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

It was funny to just take a backseat and be like, 'Wow, I might be in this crazy place, but maybe I don't need to understand everything, maybe I don't need to be someone else.'

I try to find a way to make it comfortable or interesting or funny to me.

Edmonton is not the end of the world but you can certainly see it from there.

The Brazilians were South American, and the Ukranians will be more European.

I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.

I apologized to her once for spending less time with her, but she blew it off. "You're in love. That makes you actually kind of boring to people who aren't in love. You know, the sane ones.