Quotes About Reflection

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

Sometimes we just have to accept there are things we can't know. Why is your sister ill? Why did my father die?…Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. we have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

We stand dead still and we listen to the night. The city drones. An owl hoots and a cat howls and a dog barks and a siren wails. We let the stars shine into us.

Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.

There was nothing to be gained in speaking to the evil, and everything to lose.

The shrine before her gave her a way to concentrate her thoughts, and powerful as symbols were, it was still just a symbol. Monuments and rituals served their purpose, but they fell away to insignificance before the essence of faith itself. That was what she offered the God-Emperor now.

We are the movies and the movies are us.

You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong.

Again he thought of his own losses, and he wondered why it was that the things a person had lost— or might lose— defined him more than the things he yet possessed.

Who can explain just how he became the person he is? It does not happen this day or that one. It is a gradual evolution that happens largely unheralded. He simply was who he now was.

No, I haven't decided where to live yet." He thought, I haven't decided if I want to live yet.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Sometimes she wondered about lung cancer, but on some basic, primal level she believed that she and any cancers that might grow in her system were one and the same being, and they would do her no harm. ?It was an idle, amusing thought

I'm not getting old," Harry said, "I'm already old.

In order to feel remorse, there had to be a gray area, some part of the situation that made you uncertain of your choices. Noah

She had learned long ago that when something wouldn't make itself clear to her, what she needed to do was walk away from it for a short time.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

has a square head. It reminds Peter of the square watermelons they grow in North Africa. They grow them in wooden crates so that as the fruit stretches out during growth it forms the shape of its container. He wonders whether Mathers was grown in a wooden crate.

wasn't as pleasant lately, Sam thought, as he made his way through the back entry to the detectives' division. There weren't so many people there

Okay, he told himself, enough Memory Lane crap. Let's get back to

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

There is no time in the mind,