Quotes About Reflection

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

When all is lost, there is still a memory.

You mark and celebrate errors, transforming failures into successes.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

I'm tired of being the funniest person in the room.

Should I get married? Should I be good? Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood? —GREGORY CORSO, "Marriage

I'm Catholic. I might have already mentioned that 'cause if you're Catholic, is it ever fucking not on your mind? I eat guilt for breakfast. I'll take life with a side of guilt—that's a joke we cracked like once a month. What's on the menu? Life with a side of guilt?

I got lost sorting out the ways I had aged out of the situation I was in.

What does a man do with an ugly truth? Will it fester? Will it fade?

My horse is plodding down a path unspooling under her hooves like a ball of wool, only wider, while I think of ways to wake kings or small children or writers, all of whom seem to be constantly sleeping and dreaming of me in the seventh square on a horse with a mind of her own.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

Her pearled voice quiets a fountain. Even the silence, quiets.

I sat at the table and listened to the women swap stories about the people in our town.They were able to find so much to laugh about; I wondered who was sitting at a table somewhere laughing at us.

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'

I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Word is a shadow of deed.

Men should strive to think much and know little.