Quotes About Perspective

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.

I know now that, when you get to a grandfather's age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.

was already different because I was a twin. Funny how you can say that: I am a twin. Not I am one of twins, but I actually am A Twin. Like there's two of me all the time, this other one right here beside me whether you can see him or not. Or as if you're saying, I'm a Half.

I think maybe I had a first sense then of the power of story, and realised that time had done what Time sometimes does to hardship, turn it into fairy tale.

So compelling is the evidence of our own eyes and ears, so swift is your mind to assemble your own version of the story, that one of the hardest things in this world is to understand there's another way of seeing things.

like all male lovers he had quickly built a rose-coloured version that matched his own hope:

It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say This is happiness, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it.

The truth turns into a story when it grows old. We all become stories in the end. So, though the narrative was flawed, the sense was of a life so lived it was epic.

For ninety minutes, I was transported into another life, another reality, another character. Basically, it let me be someone that I wasn't. It allowed me to travel, to be a part of different cultures, different world views, different societies. Plus there are all the elements of movies: music, visuals, writing, and acting. In some ways it is the perfect art form. It is the culmination of all mediums.

Isn't that the greatest gift in the world - just not to care? I feel so grateful for it.

Everything is working out, he keeps saying. For the first time, I'm not so sure. I think back to my life sober - working, getting up early to go on bike rides and shit, going to movies. I haven't looked at a newspaper in over two weeks. There could be a new war going on and I'd have no idea. But this is the life I want to live, right? I mean, I'm happier.

I don't know. I mean, what else is there to do? People might say I'm wasting my life, but it's all relative. If I was a lawyer, I'd go to fucking law school--but I'm not. I'm a drug addict and so what do I do? Use right? Use until the wheels fall off

Hay dos panes. Usted se come dos. Yo ninguno. Consumo promedio: un pan por persona.

llore si le parece yo x mi parte me muero de risa

Si he de conceder crédito a lo dicho por la gente que trajo la noticia debo creer, sin vacilar un punto, que murió con mi nombre en las pupilas

Yo no me pongo triste fácilmente Para serles sincero Hasta las calaveras me dan risa.

Maybe I don't want it to pass because that would mean an acceptance that life is like this: just a gradual process of loss.

Real life is an overrated idea.

?uvajte se divnih dana. Loše stvari se dešavaju baš u tim divnim danima. Možda je to zbog ?injenice da uvek kada ste sre?ni postajete nesre?ni. ?uvajte se zacrtanih planova. Vaša pažnja je usresre?ena na plan, i to je trenutak kada stvari po?inju da se dešavaju van vašeg vidokruga.

but look," he said, a little desperately. "What would the world be like if everyone settled things like this?" Frieda stood up. "What is the world like?" she said.

Oh, happiness," said Frieda. "That's not what this is about.