Quotes About Reflection

There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness.

be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.

'Twas here we loved in sunnier days and greener; And now, in this disconsolate decay, I come to see her where I most have seen her, And touch the happier day.

The idle life I lead Is like a pleasant sleep, Wherein I rest and heed The dreams that by me sweep.

What shall I do with the night and the day, with this life and this death?

What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

That's all we may expect of man, this side. The grave: his good is—knowing he is bad.

To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.

I am grown peaceful as old age tonight.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,Lest you should think he never could recaptureThe first fine careless rapture!

To me at least was never evening yet But seemed far beautifuller than its day.

Therefore I summon ageTo grant youth's heritage.

Dear dead women, with such hair, too—what's become of all the goldUsed to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.

Truth that peepsOver the glasses' edge when dinner's done.

Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.

I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

Where the quiet-colored end of evening smiles.

You never know what life means till you die:Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live,Gives it whatever the significance.