Quotes About Reflection

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.

the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.

You are your own nearest environment, so begin with yourself.

I've made two mistakes, gentlemen. I've confided in a woman and I've slept in a bed.

But if the great ideas of the past are to remain young and vital, each generation must, in turn, think them through and rediscover them in their pristine newness.

To be or not to be. That's not really a question.

After years of a very busy life, I found myself with no commitments. It was a very free-floating state that was open, perhaps, to new ideas.

There's a natural human tendency to classify things as all good or all bad, but with cultural changes, it's better to see the gray areas and the trade-offs.

Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

Pour moi, je n'ai guère cessé de penser, depuis lors, aux incidents de ce voyage. Entre autres projets, j'esquisse une suite de mesures qui, étendant à notre franc l'extrême versatilité du franc suisse, le mettraient assez vite à la portée de toutes les bourses. Ce sera l'objet du petit livre qui fait suite à celui-ci.

I could not think without writing.

Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre?