Quotes About Reflection

The first time you glimpse yourself through the eyes of a person like that, it's a cold moment. It's like walking past a mirror you've walked past every day of your life, and suddenly it shows you something else, something troubling and strange.

Çöpleri, dallara tak?lm?? sallanan naylon parçalar?n?, tel örgüye tak?lm?? tuhaf ÅŸeylerin oluÅŸturduÄŸu hatt? düÅŸünüyordum ve gözlerimi k?s?p çocukluÄŸumdan bu yana kaybettiÄŸim her ÅŸeyin buraya sürüklendiÄŸini hayal ettim, ÅŸimdi burada, hepsinin önünde duruyordum ve yeterince beklersem, tarlalar?n ötesinde, ufuk hatt?nda ufac?k bir figür belirecekti.

ama küçük arabama binince, bir kaç saat boyunca sadece yollar, geniÅŸ, gri gökyüzü ve hayallerimle baÅŸ baÅŸa kalmay? seviyorum.

For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed. ... occasions now and then -- extremely desolate occasions -- when you think to yourself: What a terrible mistake I've made with my life. And you get to thinking about a different life, a better life you might have had.

What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, "Never Let Me Go.

It must be great. Not to miss things. Not to long to get back to something. Not to be looking back all the time.

And I tried to imagine how I would feel if Rosa and I, a long time from now, long after we'd found our different homes, saw each other again by chance on a street. Would I then feel, as Manager had put it, pain alongside my happiness? *

We're going to be leaving here soon. It's not like a game any more. We've got to think carefully.

I wonder if it wouldn't have been better if the Almighty had created us all as – well – as sort of plants. You know, firmly embedded in the soil. Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place.

But I could not escape the feeling that what I was really seeing was a weariness with life; the spark which had once made her such a lively, and at times volatile person seemed now to have gone.

Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we had wished?

What was I like in those days, Father? Was I like a mad person?' 'You were very shocked, which was only to be expected. We were all shocked, those of us who were left.

I turned around on the Button Couch, estimating the tension had reached a level that could no longer justify complete privacy.

however accurately one may fill in the surface details of one's mirror reflection, the personality represented rarely comes near the truth as others would see it.

You notice and absorb so much.

You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lordship's wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really – one has to ask oneself – what dignity is there in that?

Indeed – why should I not admit it? – at that moment, my heart was breaking.

One can't be forever dwelling on what might have been.

És legalább az a kiváltsága megvolt, hogy élete végén elmondhatta: a saját hibáit követte el. (…) Megválasztotta, hogy milyen úton járjon az életben, s kiderült, hogy rosszul választott. Ami viszont engem illet, hát még ezt sem mondhatom el.

Why write a novel if it was going to offer more or less the same experience someone could get by turning on a television?

Why, Mr. Stevens, why, why, why do you always have to pretend?

I remind myself that I was lucky to have any time with him at all. What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

I just waited a bit, then turned back to the car, to drive off to wherever it was I was supposed to be. Never Let Me Go

It is surely a professional responsibility for us all to think deeply about these things so that each of us may better strive towards attaining 'dignity' for ourselves.