Quotes About Reflection

Una de las grandes tragedias de nuestra existencia es ver cómo tantos hombres y mujeres desperdician sus vidas. El

El creyente más humilde puede ver más sobre sus rodillas que el incrédulo más culto de puntillas. Consideremos

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.

I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

There are thousands of thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen and writes.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?

The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world.

What you say about me, you're really saying about yourself.

Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other.

I can stand you all being a lot worse now, because I can always go there. It's when I haven't got anywhere to go that I get mad straight away. But if I go there for half an hour it's beautiful to come back.

Old Songs are more than tunes. They are little houses in which our hearts once lived. When we hear them we go visiting—we walk forgotten streets, we smile again at the skies of youth.

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

Gin and catatonic?

The year came and receded like any other leaving its flotsam of the grotesque, the memorable, the trivial.

Aye. He was very nice there. The rest of my life'll be an anti-climax.

The road, it seemed, was a river and he was the only one who knew the stepping-stones.

William McIlvanney

Who are the bitterest people in the world? The failed idealists, I would think.

Samuel Johnson: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.