Quotes About Reflection

VITA BREVIS A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there's a sentence written especially for us.

A su lado se sacude la espesura de la vejez

Men are the dreams of a shadow.

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

Creatures of a day! What is man?

In heaven, learning is seeing; On earth, remembering.

Omul este visul unei umbre.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

I work because I need to have two thousand francs in my pocket every month, but I have no desire to glorify work either by enthusiasm or envy or emulation. Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void. Who would think of working in a waiting room? While awaiting our turn we chat, we look at the pictures on the walls. But work? There is no point in it, if when our turn comes to go into the next room we shall no longer see anything.

No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.

We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Should it happen tomorrow, I would fall to my knees to give thanks to God for such a career.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserved.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.