Quotes About Reflection

older, I've got a clear space around me I didn't have before. I wonder if that's like a future, or a place where a future will be.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

I'm a mirror. If you're cool with me, I'm cool with you, and the exchange starts. What you see is what you reflect. If you don't like what you see, then you've done something. If I'm standoffish, that's because you are.

Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even noticing. Cup your hands, keep it safe. Life eventually becomes something else, something hard, something simple, something you can hold in your hand and nibble on contentedly as you sit in the sun.

When you're forty, half of you belongs to the past -- and when you're seventy, nearly all of you.

Some men like to make a little garden out of life and walk down a path.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it

The garden was still asleep. I caught it unawares. A garden that hasn't yet begun to think about people. Beautiful.

Every suicide is a solution to a problem.

Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.

When the real is no longer what it was, nostalgia assumes its full meaning.

Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with their mirrors.

You know, I looked at my face in the mirror this morning, and I like being old. My face has more content and when I train in the gym now, I am not training to be strong or handsome - just better than I was yesterday. These days the race is just against myself.

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

I don't have a bad relationship. I'm 48 years old. I think life is too short for that. To me, life is... you open the shutters, you see the dogs outside, you look left, you look right, in, what, a second and a half? And that's a life.

Mirrors are the doors through which Death comes and goes.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like — then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.