Quotes About Perspective

Whether life means anything or not, joy is real.

that will happen. But it's going to be all right, even for you. Enough is as good as a feast. And it's when everyone is equal that your kids are safest.

I was old the day I was born and I'll be young the day I die.

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago--I get them all confused, don't you?

You never see anything like it where you live, this I can guarantee. Not one person in 10,000 lives in a place where the stars are visible like they are in the Sierra at night. Dark skies (meaning away from cities), 10,000 feet above sea level: that means thousands of stars. Watch for half an hour and see several meteors streak across the sky, sometimes at cosmological speeds, faster than anything you'll ever see by day.

Life—what was it? So deep and important and full of feeling, so crucial, then suddenly just a blink, a mayfly moment and gone. Nothing really, in the grander scheme; and no grander scheme either. No. A vertiginous perch, the bedside chair in a hospice.

People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.

we are always ourselves, no matter where we go. That's what the poem is saying, I think. We have to recognize it, and make what we can here. This world, great as it is, is only just another biome we have to live in.

Arabic is learning, but Persian is sugar.

They weren't graceful, being so low and foursquare. They reminded Mary of otters she had seen in zoos, the way otters moved on land; but otters were very graceful underwater. For wolverines, this was it. Not graceful. But of course this was a human perspective; they were also obviously capable, confident, happy on the snow.

No, we're the two old Muppets on the balcony, cracking lame jokes.

Art is not truth. Art is a lie that enables us to realize the truth. said Picasso

No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare

It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you.

Everybody had been in their twenties then; well, round about thirty. Now, from round about seventy, all those years of maturity or the prime of life or whatever you called it looked like an interval between two bouts of vomiting.

Those who professed themselves unable to believe in the reality of human progress ought to cheer themselves up, as the students under examination had conceivably been cheered up, by a short study of the Middle Ages. The hydrogen bomb, the South African Government, Chioang Kaidick, Senator McCarthy himself, would then seem a light price to pay for no longer being in the Middle Ages

America takes her writers too seriously.

John D. MacDonald is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels?

Het is nooit prettig om je diepste overtuigingen in hun historische context geplaatst te zien worden.

I am too old a hand to be put off pleasure by even the certain prospect of not enjoying it.

Any man in the company of two woman is outnumbered four to one however amiable they may be. By definition. 'So when its just you and me I outnumber you two to one, is that right?' Affirmative.

Gurus Enable you to see new things. The trouble with Gurus is that you can rarely see beyond them.

When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted. He was the aggrieved party and yet he felt guilty and would continue to do so all his life.

When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted.