Quotes About Reflection

D.H. Lawrence said that it was not living life that mattered but watching it be lived. I would say that it was not watching life that mattered but explaining what you saw.

Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to a mountain of self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused, hurt and hungry ...

Sooner or later the time comes for almost everybody when, although he has sworn to himself he will never utter such sentiments, he declares that the country is going to the dogs, that life has become louder, public manners cruder, and art totally incomprehensible. When, he asks himself, will it all end?

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds.

I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

When Cliff saw Belmondo in Breathless, he thought, That guy looks like a fucking monkey. But a monkey I like.

It was weird when I first saw the movie because it was like looking at a big-budget version of my home movies, or memories.

I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him.

She's been absentmindedly saying the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi.

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra, que me llevare el blanco día

You have to know that your real home is within.

It's amazing, the psychology of growing in your field, no matter what you do. Growth comes from mistakes. You have to cherish them, so you can learn from them. Your mistakes are your greatest gift.

Your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.

No es necesario decir todo lo que se piensa; lo que sí es necesario es pensar todo lo que se dice.

Memories are like dreams, free of meaning save for that which we choose to impart.

The deepest rivers flow with the least sound.

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I am the only guinea pig I have.

If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.