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Quotes About Reflection

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.
~ Alexander Pushkin
I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.
~ Jane Birkin
What's the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
~ Seneca the Younger
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
~ Luther Vandross
[Elbowing incident] was a joke but what I want to say now is that I'm a bit sad that everyone failed to see that.
~ Seungri
We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
SAD, BUT ONE DAY OUR KIDS WILL HAVE TO VISIT MUSEUMS TO SEE WHAT A LADY LOOKS LIKE.
~ Andre Benjamin
When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when I'm feeling sad, I simply remember my favorite things and then I don't feel so bad.
~ Oscar Hammerstein II
I miss the comfort in being sad.
~ Frances Farmer
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
~ Nick Hornby
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we begin it so late.
~ William Mather Lewis
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
~ Victor Hugo
Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.
~ Mark Doty
I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.
~ Barbara Pym
It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
~ Carl Jung
I wonder if I could take back every 'I love you' ever said to you, would I do it?
~ Faraaz Kazi
We used to say "Ah Hell, we're young" But now we see that life is sad And so is love.
~ Kate Bush
If he ever left me, I wouldn't even be sad; no, 'cause there's a blessing in every lesson, and I'm glad that I knew him at all.
~ India.Arie
You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.
~ Karen Salmansohn
I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
~ Faye Dunaway
If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'
~ Bret Harte
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.
~ Emilia Lanier
I like to listen to sad music when I'm sad. It seems honest. It makes me cry, and sometimes a good cry is the only thing that can make you feel better.
~ Elizabeth Berg