Quotes About Reflection

This is the way you always are. When you can bear the misery of your reality no longer but will not pay the price necessary to change it, only then you come to me.

My pure-white past did not so much atone for me as rather blacken my present all the more

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.

vexation, yet filled with unconscious regret for the terrible unknown things that might have, but had not, happened (23)

Whenever he had spoilt a piece of work he always set himself below the meanest labourer who had at least brawn enough to do his job. (53)

Es mußte so kommen«, sagte er nachdenklich mit leiser Stimme. »Dieses Übermaß von Betriebsamkeit und Stolz auf unser Wissen mußte uns in den Zweifel zurückschleudern. Dies Jahrhundert, das schon soviel Licht gebracht hat, mußte mit der Drohung einer von neuem hereinbrechenden Finsternis enden.

L'idée de la mort, jetée avec désespoir entre deux baisers, revenait implacable et aiguë.

Oui, tout son mal venait de ce rire qu'il avait bu.

On ne garde pas ainsi son mal sur la conscience, jusqu'à en étouffer.

Then there was a little silence. Robert was not proud of himself for having been so cross, and the others were not proud of him either. You often notice that sort of silence when someone has said something it ought not to—and everyone else holds its tongue and waits for the one who oughtn't to have said it is sorry.

Quand Hélène revint […] elle pensait que jamais ils ne s'étaient moins aimés que ce jour-là.

suffering unspeakable torture at the thought of leaving his picture as it was, disfigured by an ugly, gaping wound. (49)

Pero como aquí —observó Nucha, formulando sencillamente una observación histórico-filosófica de bastante alcance— no ve uno sino las atrocidades de los señores de otro tiempo... parece que son las únicas que le dan en qué pensar... ¿Por qué serán tan malos cristianos los hombres? —añadió entreabriendo los labios con cándido asombro.

Grandes dolores de corazón y propósitos de la enmienda suelen quedarse entre las mantas.

Sólo la gente superficial e irreflexiva condena el egoísmo, cuando habría que erigirle altares como a numen tutelar: La pasión y el altruismo son los que casi siempre nos ponen en el caso de molestar, dañar y herir al prójimo: el egoísmo nunca. Consejero

Prayer, it seems, disposes us to new friendship, in that it more and more lays us open to experience from any source, makes us sensitive to every aspect of existence, every leaf, every ray of light, every sorrow, every pain.

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Emily Brightwell

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.