Quotes About Reflection

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.

Call no man happy before he dies.

Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

Every man heals himself.

Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married a fat man and the other stayed here.

Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.

Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.

If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight.

You know, I've never killed a man before. I mean I droped bombs on the enemy from the above, but never face to face. [thinking pause] I don't see what the big deal is - I really don't.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.

I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.

My step-dad is probably the greatest man I've ever known. The best advice I've ever been given was when he told me to enjoy my life because one day I'm not going to be as agile as I am now.