Quotes About Reflection

We'll all say that. We'll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it's all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we'll be here, and we'll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.

Someone should enjoy it," Ann said. When she was angry or bitter her voice became flat and distant, almost as if she were being matter-of-fact. "It won't be here long.

Take this moment right here, and ask yourself, What is now lacking?

We are all alone in our own life-world, flying through the universe at great speed. Humans are lucky not to face that. If they don't.

The King asked his wise men for some single thing that would make him happy when he was sad, but sad when he was happy. They consulted and came back with a ring engraved with the message 'This Too Will Pass.

How you think about what you're doing makes a huge difference

We'll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it's all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we'll be here, and we'll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.

Why were the good days always so short? Moment to moment, day by day—each so full, and oh so lovely—and then gone forever, gone before there was a chance to absorb them properly, to really live them.

Only a stupid person would say that. Well, and yet I've just said it. Yes.

What's the point? we asked. No more fishing. Good, we said.

She walked through the city, trying to get away from herself.

Anytime people do something consciously for the last time, Samuel Johnson is reported to have remarked, they feel sad.

With practice one could dodge the past almost entirely.

We remember more than we think we do. More than we want to, sometimes.

the word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water.

Of course I am old now, but there is no changing that, except by death. At least I have this day, and these days.

Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford

After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people's heads. The moments of change, or the clinamen as the Greeks called it.

So much for Phyllis's bridge," Nadia said. "So much for Phyllis," said Sax.

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago--I get them all confused, don't you?

Life—what was it? So deep and important and full of feeling, so crucial, then suddenly just a blink, a mayfly moment and gone. Nothing really, in the grander scheme; and no grander scheme either. No. A vertiginous perch, the bedside chair in a hospice.

One sign of a good action is that in retrospect it appears inevitable

She often felt a nostalgia for the present, aware that her life was passing by faster than she could properly take it in. She lived it, she felt it; she had given nothing to age, she still wanted everything; but she could not make it whole or coherent.

Our current economics has not yet answered any of these questions. But why should it? Do you ask your calculator what to do with your life? No. You have to figure that out for yourself.