Quotes About Reflection

There are middle-aged children who spend a part of every day thinking of their college or their war, but the ones who grow up to be men do not have this plaintive need for a flavor of past importance

The rain had washed the sunset time to a lambent beauty.

All the bright people, stopped in the midst of life, looking with forced smile into the lenses, then to be filed away, their colors fading as the years pass, caught there in slide trays, stack loads, view cubes, until one day the camera person dies and the grandchild says, "Mom, I don't know any of these people. Or where these were taken even. There are jillions of them here in this big box and more in the closet. What will I do with them anyway?" "Throw them out, dear.

The ones that swear off, most of them they go back onto it sooner or later, get pig drunk and locked up." "Something special you've got against drunks, Sheriff?" "Married to one for a long time. Too long. She finally drove into a tree one night.

In my experience, John D. MacDonald, the man, was as kind and thoughtful as his fiction would lead you to believe that he must be. That a writer's work accurately reflects his soul is a rarer thing than you might imagine, but in his case, the reflection is clear and true. For that reason, it has been a special honor, in fact a grace, to be asked to write this introduction.

boy. I have a shallow, pyrotechnic, unchanging brilliance with which I awe the peasants, but there is no solidity, no basic texture, hence no capacity for creative growth.

He guessed he had better face up to it and admit, watching the shabby rowboat approach the bank, that she was just too darn close to that picture he had been carting around in his head, of a girl he had never met, of a girl made up of bits and pieces of other girls known wisely and not too well.

When I play with my cat, who knows but that she regards me more as a plaything than I do her? —MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE

What you feel good after one time, you feel rotten after the next. And it is difficult to know in advance. And morality shouldn't be experimental, I don't think.

John D. MacDonald

Souvent Me Souvient (Remember Me Often)-The Darwin Conspiracy

I had a horror of the danger of arrogance. What a pitiful thing it is when a man lets a little temporary success spoil him, warp his judgment, and he forgets what he is!

tomes on the meaning of life. Poets and playwrights were

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. [ The Autumnal ]

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

The young man walks fast by himself through the crowd that thins into the night streets;

Think of what it was they were applauding," he said at last. "My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems to applaud that.

words are but pictures of our thoughts

Seek not thyself without thyself to find.

Not Heaven itself upon the past has power, But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

The nature of the praise and prayer in the Psalms indicates how memory is key to praise and prayer.

The problem with nostalgia is what we tend to do is only remember what you like and you forget the parts you didn't like