Quotes about Perspective

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.

If the world itself is a horror then there is nothing to fix and the only thing you could be protected from would be the contemplation of it.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everbody is goin to get older with you.

Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else. Probably the best way is to be from Mars.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.

They came to know the night skys well. Western eyes that read more geometric constructions than those names given by the ancients.

Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.

People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they're lucky they'll get it anyways. People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things.

You might change your mind about what you hate to leave, he said.

It was the theory of the week. For about a year.

And of course it shouldnt come as a surprise to find that people in rubber rooms have a worldview at odds with that of the people who put them there.

The lesson of a life can never be its own. Only the witness has power to take its measure. It is lived for the other only.