Quotes About Reflection

Lucien was sitting on his front porch, drinking

He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.

L'età ci arriva di soppiatto alle spalle, ma in un cane arriva con una rapidità mozzafiato, che induce a riflettere.

Children serve as impossible-to-ignore, in-your-face timepieces, marking the relentless march of one's life through what otherwise might seem an infinite sea of minutes, hours, days, and years.

Marley fez-me pensar no carácter efémero da vida, nas suas alegrias passageiras e oportunidades perdidas. Fez-me lembrar que só temos uma chance de chegar ao ouro, sem repetições.

We both rolled our eyes when my old-school mother clucked at us, Enjoy them while you can because they'll be grown up before you know it. Now, even just a few years into it, we were realising she was right. Hers was a well-worn cliché but one we could already see was steeped in truth. The boys were growing up fast, and each week ended another little chapter that could never again be revisited.

Mary watched everything as a mere spectator.

It was now up to Mary herself to see if she could reshuffle their discarded hand.

positioning her chin carefully with her hands and holding them there

As soon as he had trawled through the confession, he must have realized how flimsy

She reviewed her options and decided to return to Scotland. Her mind was made up within a month.

Virginia Woolf pointed out in her classic essay 'The Art of Biography' (1938)

She was only twenty-eight. It was, wrote a chronicler

taking stock of the likely consequences of the Guise dynastic project, decided to draw back.

Everybody's got a river inside, he said. Always something under the surface.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.

We cannot have all the answers, Job; we don't even know all the questions.

It is like remembering two different lives at once...and wondering which of them is mine...

I came to realise that my life, which had seemed so unmistakably real, consisted only of memories

In his many remarks on mathematics, Wittgenstein is concerned to show the delusiveness of this picture. For when we reflect on it, we forget that we are looking at a projection of our own decisions and their consequences.

Philosophy should take thoughts that are otherwise turbid and blurred, so to speak, and make them clear and sharp.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

It is beautiful in a picture to wash the disciples' feet; but the sands of the real desert have no lustre in them to compensate for the servile nature of the occupation.