Quotes About Reflection

How monumental Lydia's grief had been when her father died! It terrifies her now, to think of it, how deeply formative that single loss was in her earlier life. Now there are sixteen more. When she thinks of this, she feels as tatty as a scrap of lace, defined not so much by what she's made of, but more by the shapes of what's missing.

introduction, shaking his head.

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Less than two weeks ago, dirt on the floor in her hallway was a thing that could annoy her. It's unimaginable.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

At the cinema we do not think, we are thought.

Why must one talk? Often one shouldn't talk, but live in silence. The more one talks, the less the words mean. (Nana Kleinfrankenheim, Vivre Sa Vie)

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Mirrors should reflect before sending an image.

Every film is the result of the society that produced it. That's why the American cinema is so bad now. It reflects an unhealthy society.

One can enjoy existence, not life.

I hope the amazed reader will be patient for a while—in order simply to read.

When a philosophical thought expresses a concept of what it then names "God," this concept functions exactly as an idol. It gives itself to be seen, but thus all the better conceals itself as the mirror where thought, invisibly, has its forward point fixed, so that the invisable finds itself, with an aim suspended by the fixed concept, disqualified and abandoned

La pensée est le réveil du sens.

It is not self defining but by You

There ran in me sweet lines of poetry

People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely

Endings are sad, aren't they?" "Yes.

She knew that hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.

It was the kind of delicious chilliness, though, that was good for thinking about how winter wasn't far away, and snow, and Christmas.