Quotes About Reflection

Remorse," she said, with great gusto. "Remorse?

Jangan pikirkan lagi masa lalu! Berpalinglah pada masa yang akan datang! Apa yang telah terjadi, sudahlah. Kepahitan tidak akan mengubahnya." - Hercule Poirot, Death on the Nile, page 93

Lucu sekali, karena sesuatu yang telah kita lupakan sering bisa teringat kembali bila kita membicarakannya.

While the light lasts I shall remember, and in the darkness I shall not forget.

I should have kept him to the end," said Mrs. Oliver. "In a book, I mean," she added apologetically. "Real life's a bit different," said Battle.

I believe the "present" matters - not the past! The past must go. If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it. We see it in exaggerated terms - a false perspective.

Nothing. An idea that has just occurred to me. I must go home and think things out thoroughly. Do you know, I believe I have been extremely stupid—almost incredibly so." "I find that hard to believe," I said gallantly

It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past

It was all a long time ago…

You forget," I said. "My calling obliges me to respect one quality above all others — the quality of mercy." "Well, I'm a just man. No one can deny that." I did not speak, and he said sharply: "Why don't you answer? A penny for your thoughts, man." I hesitated, then I decided to speak. "I was thinking," I said, "that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.

The old, you must remember, though considered incapable of action, have nevertheless a good fund of experience on which to draw.

From a recumbent position he looked up at Mr Blore and said with immense dignity: 'I'm talking to you, young man. The day of judgment is very close at hand.' Subsiding on to his seat Mr Blore thought to himself: He's nearer the day of judgment than I am! But there, as it happens, he was wrong…

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

Saber que uno ha hecho un mal irreversible a otro ser humano es la carga más pesada que puede tener nadie que soportar».

But you can figure to yourself, monsieur, that a man may work towards a certain object, may labour and toil to attain a certain kind of leisure and occupation, and then find that, after all, he yearns for the old busy days, and the old occupations that he thought himself so glad to leave?

Miss Maple sighed. 'It seemed wonderful at first—unchanged you know—like stepping back into the past—to the part of the past that one had loved and enjoyed.' She paused. 'But of course, it wasn't really like that. I learned (what I suppose I really knew already) that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back—that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street, isn't it?

The true work, it is done from within. The little grey cells—remember always the little grey cells, mon ami." -- Hercule Poirot

That would mean looking at the case from entirely different angle," I said. "One so often has to do that - about everything. Don't you think so?

He said at last, when Miss Gilchrist had twittered into silence:

With a deep sigh I proceeded to do things with my hair. I have nice hair. It is black—a real black, not dark brown—

Nothing is so sad, in my opinion, as the devastation wrought by age.

Günah?n seni daima izler bunu unutma.

The past is sometimes a very good place to live

I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings." "My dear fellow, that's just what I want.