Seeing Quotes - Page 33

• I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Slaughterhouse Five, Mountain, Doe

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.141, Infobase Publishing

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• Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Success, Failure, Common Sense

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• Over time, I have come to see the work of literature less as narrating the world than "seeing the world with words." From the moment he begins to use words like colors in a painting, a writer can begin to see how wondrous and surprising the world is, and he breaks the bones of language to find his own voice. For this he needs paper, a pen, and the optimism of a child looking at the world for the first time.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Children, Color, Voice

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Other Colours”, p.15, Faber & Faber

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• Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Cynical, Psychology, Worst

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• I don't know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Art

  "Fictional character: Vincent Van Gogh". "Loving Vincent", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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• The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Disappointment, Eye

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• I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Children, Heart

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• Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival. Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity: it is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.

  Adrienne Rich

  Eye, Self, Survival

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• When shall I at last retire into solitude alone, without companions, without joy and without sorrow, with only the sacred certainty that all is a dream? When, in my rags—without desires—shall I retire contented into the mountains? When, seeing that my body is merely sickness and crime, age and death, shall I—free, fearless, and blissful—retire to the forest? When? When, oh when?

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Dream, Joy, Fearless

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.

  Annie Dillard

  Powerful, Firsts, Glances

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.122, Canongate Books

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Wise, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Richard Lee Grossman (2005). “A Year with Emerson: A Daybook”, p.140, David R. Godine Publisher

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• An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Years, Hatred, Alive

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• She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.

  James M. Barrie

  Simple, Reason, Said

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.123, 谷月社

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• They marched. Not for themselves. They marched to remember the ones who didn't make it back. They marched because seeing so much loss can teach you about life. they marched because we're all fighting a war whether we know it or not...a war for our minds and souls and what we believe in.

  Joan Bauer

  War, Believe, Loss

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• Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

  Milan Kundera

  Drinking, Sky, Water

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• To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.

  Susan Sontag

  Gun, People, Cameras

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Positive, Meaningful, Kitchen Table

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• We are predators, whose all-seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment.

  Anne Rice

  Eye, Giving, Predator

  "Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

  George Orwell

  Courage, Truth, Struggle

  Tribune 22 Mar. 1946, "In Front of your Nose"

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• Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Mad, Responsible

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1947). “Resurrection”

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• He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Men, Evil

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• I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses.

  Andy Warhol

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words are like that, they deceive, they pile up, it seems they do not know where to go, and, suddenly, because of two or three or four that suddenly come out, simple in themselves, a personal pronoun, an adverb, an adjective, we have the excitement of seeing them coming irresistibly to the surface through the skin and the eyes and upsetting the composure of our feelings, sometimes the nerves that can not bear it any longer, they put up with a great deal, they put up with everything, it was as if they were wearing armor, we might say.

  Jose Saramago

  Eye, Simple, Two

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• My Lord told me a joke. And seeing Him laugh has done more for me than any scripture I will ever read.

  Meister Eckhart

  Laughing, Done, Scripture

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• But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Coffee, Character

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