Quotes About Perspective

Blessings are just curses that other people envy.

But I knew that there couldn't be pockets that enormous. In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything else in the universe was on top of.

Nothing is beautiful and true.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering

Rabbi, I feel no despair anymore. For seventy years I had only nightmares, but I have no nightmares anymore. I feel only gratitude for my life, for every moment I lived. Not only the good moments. I feel gratitude for every moment of my life. I have seen so many miracles.

I asked her, Are you an optimist or a pessimist? She looked at her watch and said, I'm optimistic. Then I have some bad news for you, because humans are going to destroy each others as soon as it becomes easy enough to, which will be very soon. Why do beautiful songs make you sad? Because they aren't true. Never? Nothing is beautiful and true. She smiled, but in a way that wasn't just happy, and said, You sound just like Dad.

There are worse things, worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive.

Nobody likes war not even those who survive it, not even the winners.

I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.

Are you an optimist or a pessimist? I can't remember. Which? Do you know what those words mean? Not really. An optimist is positive and hopeful. A pessimist is negative and cynical. I'm an optimist. Well, that's good, because there's no irrefutable evidence. There's nothing that could convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced. But there is an abundance of clues that would give the wanting believer something to hold on to.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

I didn't want to hear about death. It was all anyone talked about, even when no one was actually talking about it.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life [...]

Isn't it so weird how the number of dead people is increasing, though the earth stays the same size, so that one day there isn't going to be a room to bury anyone anymore?

It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.

but it's so painful to think, and tell me, what did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

Fish are divided from us by surfaces and silence.

What's it about? she asked. It's about love. She laughed. They're all about love.

None of my pets know their own names, what kind of person am I?

Use humor as aggressively as chemo. Laugh until your hair falls out. There is nothing that can't be played for a laugh.

We were not rich, but there was nothing we wanted. From my bedroom window I watched the world. And I was safe from the world.

I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.