Quotes About Perspective

The prism through which the world shows itself to me is mine.

Poetry was something everyone could agree on because no one could be certain of what it was about.

After all, the war doesn't alter my relationship with a blade of grass.

One has to be aware of so-called witnesses.

Ng??i ta không già ?i. V?i nh?ng n?m tháng trôi qua, nhi?u ng??i và nhi?u th? r?t cu?c tr? nên hài h??c và n?c c??i ??n m?c b?n ném vào h? và vào chúng m?t cái nhìn tr? con.

All those journeys, those countries where they had monsoons, earthquakes, amoebas and virgin forests, had lost their charm for me.

Ich finde es etwas weniger traurig, wenn alles bleibt, wie es immer war.

I have never respected chronological order. It has never existed for me.

As the years go by, many people and many things end up seeming so humorous and so pathetic that all you can do is try to look at them through the eyes of a child.

Altri, come lui, proprio prima della mia nascita, avevano patito pene di ogni sorta per consentire a noi di provare soltanto piccoli dispiaceri.

C. S. Lewis once said, "A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.

Stories are important...They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.

But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? the monster said, bending down so it's face was close to Conor's. Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

The mistake of every young person is to think they're the only ones who see darkness and hardship in the world." ... "The mistake of every adult, though, is to think darkness and hardship aren't important to young people because we'll grow out of it. Who cares if we will? Life is happening to us now, just like it's happening to you.

You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

He's a woman. He's a grown woman He's a old woman.

Life does not have to go how you think it will," Tomasz says. "Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen.