Quotes About Reflection

Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I'm less of a man than I'd like to be.

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

I'm a cruel man to myself.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.

... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.

Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet.

Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.

Ah, how unjust to Nature and himself Is thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!

When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees

This vast and solid earth, that blazing sun, Those skies, thro' which it rolls, must all have end. What then is man? The smallest part of nothing.

Humanity is so constituted that the basest criminal represents you and me, as well as the most glorious saint that walks on high. We are reflected in all other men; all other men are embodied in us.

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.

It is important what a man still plans at the end. It shows the measure of injustice in his death.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

I have met few men in my life, worth repeating eight times.

I spent a week living as a man. Which was actually, I'm sorry to say, embarrassingly easy for me to do.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.