Quotes About Reflection

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Reality denied comes back to haunt.

When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.

Berlín. Yo adoraba esta vieja ciudad. Pero eso fue antes de que se mirara en su propio reflejo y le diera por llevar unos corsés tan ajustados que apenas podía respirar. Yo adoraba las filosofías fáciles y despreocupadas, el jazz barato, los cabarés vulgares y todos los demás excesos culturales que caracterizaron los años del Weimar y que hicieron de Berlín una de las ciudades más apasionantes del mundo.

I shrugged. "Staying in a hotel is a bit like life. At some stage you have to check out." "Oh

If there's one thing history has taught me to believe it is that it's dangerous to believe in anything very much.

Is that what we are? Fools?" "Certainly. But at least we know we're fools. And in today's Germany, that counts as a kind of wisdom." •

wondering if I should

Rankin lit a cigarette with a handsome gold lighter, stared into the flame for a moment as if it might provide a clue to the origins of the explosion, and then said, 'What do you think

Sometimes there is nothing quite

How did it ever get to be that bad? I think something happened to Germany after the Great War. You could see it on the streets of Berlin. A callous indifference to human suffering.

âgenouilles

experience I was keen to repeat. Meanwhile, Kaltenbrunner

You read much, Bernie?' 'More and more,' I admitted. 'And for me it's like the French Foreign Legion. I do it to forget. Myself, I think.

There's only one thing that unnerves me more than the company of an ugly woman in the evening, and that's the company of the same ugly woman the following morning.

Do you have a mother?" "Naturally I used to have one," I said. "A father, too, if memory serves. Only somewhere along the way I seem to have lost them both. Careless of me.

Our lives are shaped by the choices we make, of course, and more noticeably by the choices that were wrong.

I can't help thinking that life isn't just about working out who we are and what makes us tick, it's also about understanding why we aren't where we ever expected to be.

There are three kinds of companies: those who make things happen; those who watch things happen; and those who wonder what's happened.—Anonymous

If I were called inTo construct a religionI should make use of water.

Perhaps being old is having lighted roomsInside your head, and people in them, acting.People you know, yet can't quite name.

Never such innocence again.