Quotes About Reflection

Don't they say that all the people in your dreams are really yourself?

I read and reread these pages all day long as I sat next to the cast-iron stove. In the absence of coal, we burned wooden boards pilfered from the rubble of destroyed houses in order to keep warm in these chilly early days of spring. In times of plenty my appetite had always been small, but now I often went hungry.

La vie change après, mais on ne peut pas s'imaginer comment. Cela prend du temps à comprendre, pas comme un déménagement où on ne trouve plus rien. Non, tout est à sa place, mais rien n'est pareil. Sauf qu'on ne le sait pas avant longtemps. On le sait, bien sûr, mais on se demande pourquoi il n'y a pas plus de preuves.

S'il existe un cimetière des mots arrachés aux êtres qui comprennent, je veux pouvoir m'y promener.

To think is to say no.

Penser, c'est aller d'erreur en erreur.

I go to bed and before falling asleep I talk to Lucas in my head the way I have for many years. What I tell him is just about what I usually do. I tell him that if he's dead he's lucky and I'd very much like to be in his place. I tell him that he got the better deal, that it is I who is pulling the greater weight. I tell him that life is totally useless, that it's nonsense, an aberration, infinite suffering, the invention of a non-God whose evil surpasses understanding.

Every one of us commits a fatal mistake sometime in his life. When we realize it, the damage is already done

Later, with time, we no longer need a shawl over our eyes or grass in our ears. The one playing the blind man simply turns his gaze inward, and the deaf one shuts his ears to all sounds

The people have already atoned For the past and the future

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.

Some truths were too ugly to be easily embraced.

He did not answer, nor did he watch as I left. He was seeing Sigismund again, dwelling on replies he could never speak to a brother he had once admired and who had died despising him.

Well, she certainly had a point there. It wasn't easy remembering you were an august personage.

Of his entire life, the worst moments had been during the three or four months after Nora had died, when he'd awakened to the heart-constricting knowledge that she wasn't there anymore.

People should draw lessons from the past, but those who look constantly behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backsides

people should draw lessons from the past, but those who constantly look behind themselves will get nothing more than a sore neck and a good view of their backside.

The dark places from my past are where lessons were learnt and wisdom was earnt.

Put aside a few minutes today to imagine and play. -Aaron Jhinkoo

People come, students and everyone else, to be inspired by the biennale. They expect to see architecture as a kind of seismograph of where we are.