Quotes About Reflection

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time

and after she went, Dalton didn't last long. His death certificate listed heart failure as the cause, but Owen Gray knew it had been loneliness and grief. After

Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand,But they are not the Life for which they stand.

There studious let me sit,And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline.

cloudbursts of memory and hallucination crashing in on me from all sides

Because, what I am trying to say—what I was thinking in the car from Antwerp last night—good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions. Scary idea!

and among the many, many things I've had time to think about (such as what's worth living for? what's worth dying for? what's completely foolish to pursue?) I've been thinking a lot about what Hobie said: about those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.

It has always been hard for me to talk about Julian without romanticizing him. In many ways, I loved him the most of all; and it is with him that I am most tempted to embroider, to flatter, to basically reinvent.

and I think of what Hobie said: beauty alters the grain of reality.

Maybe I only see a pattern because I've been staring too long. But then again, maybe I see a pattern because it's there.

La muerte es la madre de la belleza. —¿Y qué es la belleza? —El terror.

you should never get a person's name tattooed on you, because then you lose the person. I was too young to know that when I got the tattoo.