Quotes About Reflection

There are moments when time does stop. We must be alert enough to notice such moments.

One can learn much through the thin walls of summer houses.

Um epílogo, disfarçado de resumo do passado, é realmente uma forma de nos alertar sobre o futuro.

Quel ch'è più arduo ad accettarsi, riguardo al passare del tempo, è che le persone che un tempo contavano tanto per noi siano adesso chiuse fra due parentesi.

Retrieving Sorrow is a kind of religion, too.

As Jack would discover, it's remarkable how you can miss people you barely knew—even those people you never especially liked.

In the life of a man," wrote Marcus Aurelius, "his time is but a moment . . .

Imaginer les choses vaut mieux que se les rappeler », avait écrit Garp.

Bogus wondered what he could have thought he wanted. But the kitchen was far too flurried for thinking; bodies were everywhere. So what if dog puke still lurked unseen in the laundry room! In good company we can be brave. Mindful of his scars, his old harpoons and things, Bogus Trumper smiled cautiously at all the good flesh around him.

Das Leben ist leider nicht so gebaut wie ein guter, altmodischer Roman. Vielmehr endet es, wenn sich diejenigen, die sich erschöpfen sollen, erschöpft haben. Alles, was bleibt, ist die Erinnerung.

Was he nice? He didn't know. He hoped he was, but how many of us truly know?

but when I look at you now, I don't know who you are." I told her I occasionally had the same feeling about myself.

And more than beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I was thinking, when I looked back—up the nighttime mountain—at the wrecked train, lying in the snow.

There are times when I need to read the Thirty-seventh Psalm, over and over again. Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure: fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil.

HOW CAN YOU BE HAPPY IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME THINKING ABOUT DOING IT?" Owen asked.

The autobiography part isn't what matters," I began, before I got bogged down in all the amalgams. The

and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you! Later, I would remember everything.

It was the winter of Jack's senior year

Then I got up and went to the bathroom door and asked her if there was anything I could get her. "Thank you," she whispered. "Just go out and get me yesterday and most of today," she said. "I want them back." "Is that all?" I said. "Just yesterday and today?" "That's all," she said. "Thank you.

Your first loss of a loved one, the first death of someone dear to you—when it happens, the pace of everything changes. In the past, there were times when nothing seemed to be happening. When you lose someone, you're aware of the earth's motion; the world is always moving, always ahead of you. For the rest of your life, you know there are other deaths coming—one after another, yours included.

May you be spared such a moment of recognition as this—namely, the conviction that most of your happiness lies behind you, and the lion's share of your loneliness looms ahead.

I remember when you kissed me, he wrote to Dr. Larch. I wasn't really asleep. Yes, thought Dr. Larch, I remember that, too. He rested in the dispensary. Why didn't I kiss him more-why not all the time?

John Irving (Author)

Maybe she could've come back from her suspension and gone back to work at Transcept, as if nothing had happened. But she couldn't. Because something had happened. A lot of somethings. And it meant she could never return to that life, if she even wanted to. And she didn't.