Quotes About Reflection

The ghosts followed us back.

He felt like some overgrown pupa plagued by second thoughts, trying to climb back into its husk.

My friend. And by the time she gets over that jarring idea, she's alone again.

I HAVE NEVER FOR ONE INSTANT SEEN CLEARLY WITHIN MYSELF. HOW THEN WOULD YOU HAVE ME JUDGE THE DEEDS OF OTHERS? —MAURICE MAETERLINCK

I brought her flowers one dusky Tuesday evening when the light was perfect. I pointed out the irony of that romantic old tradition—the severed genitalia of another species, offered as a precopulatory bribe—and then I recited my story just as we were about to fuck. To this day, I still don't know what went wrong.

You never finish a book. You only abandon it.

TRY TO TOUCH THE PAST. TRY TO DEAL WITH THE PAST. IT'S NOT REAL. IT'S JUST A DREAM. —Ted Bundy

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Three life rules guaranteed to bring you peace in life. 1. Keep your mouth shut. 2. Keep your big mouth shut. 3 Keep your stupid big mouth shut.

I believe that architecture today needs to reflect on the task and possibilities which are inherently its own. Architecture is not a vehicle or a symbol for things that do not belong to its essence. In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings, and speak its own language.

And what is the cause hereof, but only our own lightness & daintiness: for we seem to be good for nothing else, but to be tossed hither & thither like a Tennise bal, being creatures of very short life, of infinite carefulness, & yet ignorant unto what shore to sail with our ship

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.

For who can doubt that Rome would rise again instantly if she began to know herself?

Perhaps I am sated with travel, with rambling through many lands; perhaps my youthful ardor is relaxing and cooling, turning naturally to a love of peace, suitable for my occupations. At any rate I am losing my love of roving.

Your Homer is here with me; mute or rather in fact deaf am I, in front of him. But I am happy to gaze upon him and often hug him and, sighing, say, 'Great man, how I would love to hear you!

los primeros ochenta años son los difíciles, después te mueres y te quedas muy tranquilo. Pues bien, ahora los primeros ochenta años no sólo son difíciles, sino que, a este paso, pronto serán todos laborables.

Le monde a l'envers, zise Gogu Apostolescu. Dar st? a?a de un milion de ani.

Ce râzi, domnule? întreb? nemul?umit Gogu Apostolescu. De ce râzi? Râzi de mine? - Sigur c? da, puiule, zise Titel Negruzzi. Dar de cine vrei s? râd? De mine? Ar fi nedemn s? râd de mine tot eu; eu m? respect, mo?er.

Bazen etraf?m?zda o kadar esrarl? bir hâdise olur ki ince teferuat?na kadar bunu sezeriz, fakat hiçbir ?ey idrak etmeyiz; ruhumuzun içinde ikinci bir ruh her ?eyi anlar, fakat bize anlatmaz, böyle korkunç i?aretlerle bizi muamman?n derinliklerine atar ve bo?ar.

unutmak için en iyi çare unutmaya çal??mak de?il, çal??mamakt?r.

Izd?rab?n verdi?i intibah zamanlar?nda, kendi kendini aldatmak, ba?kalar?n? kand?rmak kadar basit de?ildir ve insan kendi içindeki adaletten ürkmeye ba?lar.

Bu bir s?hhat ölçüsüdür, sigara, dedi. ?yi gelmedi mi bil ki iyi de?ildir insan.

Hürriyete ve mes'uliyete inanan bir adam?n asla filozof olam?yaca??n? Ferit ilk defa o anda dü?ündü.