Quotes About Reflection

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

To know the great men dead is compensation for having to live with the mediocre.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

Men and women will forever make gods of others rather than see the god in themselves.

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

Call no day happy 'til it is done; call no man happy til he is dead.

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

The task of man is not to discover new worlds, but to discover his own world in terms of human comprehension and beauty.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.

In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind.

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

Freedom is baffling: men having it often know not they have it till it is gone and they no longer have it.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.

Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice.

I look like the man in the moon.

If a man has not discovered anything so dying is not worth living

We need clear days to see the horizons; we need foggy nights to see beyond the horizons! Man sometimes can think much deeper when he sees less!