Quotes About Reflection

Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

She was a mirror that did not lie; whose interest in me was real; whose love was real.

Staring out to sea, I finally forced myself to stop thinking of her as someone still somewhere, if only in memory, still obscurely alive, breathing, doing, moving, but as a shovelful of ashes already scattered; as a broken link, a biological dead end, an eternal withdrawal from reality, a once complex object that now dwindled, dwindled, left nothing behind except a l like a fallen speck of soot on a blank sheet of paper.

Utram bibis?Aquam an undam?

As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was.

If you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

An answer is always a form of death.

Greece is like a mirror. It makes you suffer. Then you learn.

She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.

You use your life.

It was curious how quiet that last evening was; as if I had already left, and we were just two ghosts talking to each other.

We think we grow old, we grow wise and more tolerant; we just grow more lazy.

Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see death ahead, but eternally behind: in any moment that stops and thinks.

Un raspuns este intotdeauna o forma a mortii - Eu cred ca intrebarile sunt o forma a vietii.

a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.

German is to death what Latin is to ritual religion – entirely appropriate.

Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it, I still think I can escape.

In my opinion a lot of people who may seem happy now would do what I did or similar things if they had the money and the time. I

Yapt???n?z ÅŸeyler, daha önce yapt?klar?n?z? belirsizleÅŸtirir.

Just a golden body throwing stones aimlessly into the sea.

Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.

Era inútil. Ella había matado todo romance entre los dos, y se había convertido en una mujer cualquiera para mi. Como las demás. Ya había dejado de respetarla; ya nada quedaba de respetar en ella.

Utram bibis? Aquam an undam?" Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?