Quotes About Reflection

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours.

Likewise a poet.

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important.

Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible.

If only I had been able to examine the evidence while it was fresh! But no: I had followed my prick instead. What would Sherlock Holmes have said?

I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize.

Every third night a commitee holds a meeting in my head.

Age is a clever thief. It takes a little from you each day, so you're not aware of your loss until it's irreversible.

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.

Too much time alone had done something peculiar to his heart: A confused and unreliable organ at best, it now held something akin to joy.

His own life made very little noise of its own, and he found that in silence there was something downright perilous: It had enemies in it that only sound could drive out.

Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: 'Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?' If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours.

If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends." -Luke Skywalker

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can only be true by accident. A faith worth having is faith worth discussing and testing.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.

God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it's working on; then you can write a novel.