Quotes About Insight

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It's commenting or observing or twisting life.

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Persons who merely have-a-life customarily move in a dense fluid. That's how they're able to conduct their lives at all. Their living depends on not seeing.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

I think the word "intelligent" dictates a lot about someone's sense of humor, and the terms of reference in your life, the way you interpret something you read or a painting you look at or something.

With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

I guess it's the age group of students; You are questioning life. Then there are those who actually see their problems reflected in it.

I'm a pretty young person, but I think you need a little life experience to actually say something.

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

You can fulfill your whole life in one hour of inner seeing.

Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.

Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

I'm just basically telling a story of my life.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.