Quotes About Reflection

I had better think things through carefully again after I have returned with your surrender in hand.

my real face, which was merely an incomplete copy of the mask...

If we had been far apart even before the accident, what was I trying to recapture at this late date with all the fuss about the mask? Nothing was worth the trouble of getting back. There wasn't a single thing to hide from the eight uneventful years we had spent together; since I was enclosed by a wall of nonexpression thicker than my bandages, I had lost all right to complain.

you looked back at me... With transparent nonexpression, like rays of sunlight filtering through a forest swept with the cold winds of winter.…

In actual fact I did not perform a single real act but simply went round in circles writing these notes.

Iš ties?, darbas padeda žmogui susitaikyti su b?gan?iu laiku, net kai jis slenka tuš?iai.

imagining the scene when I would confront you who were the symbol of "the others.

Culoarea ochilor nu-i decât expresia cuvintelor.

Even amidst the worst panic, there are still scattered moments like this, when time flows leisurely by. Even when trying to finish a story by an impending deadline, Asakawa would sometimes find himself aimlessly watching coffee drop from the spout of the coffee maker, and later he'd reflect on how elegantly he'd wasted precious time.

If she were still alive, she would be forty-five this year.

the principal and his bald head came to mind.

I guess you're right. I can look at photo albums and get a reasonable idea of what I was like when I was three years old, or when I was a newborn.

Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.

But if a mirror ever makes you sad you should know that it does not know you.

There is dew on these poems in the morning, and at night a cool breeze may rise from them. In the winter they are blankets, in the summer a place to swim. I like talking to you like this. Have you moved a step closer? Soon we may be kissing.

the sun is within me and so is the moon

The people I knew, even the people I loved, did not always get things right, and they accumulated acts and omissions that lessened their sense of sureness.

Evinden ç?kman gerekmez. Masandan kalkma ve dinle. Hatta dinleme, yaln?zca bekle. Hatta bekleme bile, tamamen sessiz ve yaln?z ol. Dünya, maskesini düÅŸüresin diye, gelip kendini sunacakt?r sana, baÅŸka türlü olamaz; kendinden geçmiÅŸ bir halde k?vranacakt?r önünde.

Mi viene in mente che non riesco a ricordare nessun preciso particolare del Suo viso. Vedo ancora soltanto come Lei si allontanò poi tra i tavolini del caffè, la Sua figura, il Suo abito.

Unsichere Fragen und ungeeignetster Augenblick, sie zu stellen!

I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to, tell them I wanted to hear what they said and tell them what was on my mind.

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?

Jedes Buch ist ein Ort an den man wieder und wieder zurück kehren kann.

Sie dachte noch an Unkes Maske, als sie einschlief, und im Halbschlaf fragte sie sich, ob nicht jedermann bisweilen eine Maske trug. Eine Maske der Freude, eine Maske der Trauer, eine Maske der Gleichgültigkeit. Eine Maske aus Ihr-seht-mich-nicht.