Quotes About Reflection

Despite its abbreviated length, February's always struck me as an especially bleak month, at least in these parts. I know it's not the darkest month, and I know it's not the coldest or the snowiest month, but February is gray in a way I can't explain. In February, all the big happy holidays are gone, and it's weeks and weeks -months, even- until Easter and spring.

When Angelo tugged these boots on this morning, tightened and tied the laces, he had no inkling they would be his funeral wear.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...and so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

Later, I went back and looked at it and realized that the walrus was the bad guy in the story and the carpenter was the good guy. I thought, Oh, shit, I picked the wrong guy. I should have said, 'I am the carpenter.' But that wouldn't have been the same, would it? 'I am the carpenter….

The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops, that'll be the time to worry. Not before.

I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

imagine a world without people

Look at me Who am I supposed to be? Look at me What am I supposed to be? Look at me Oh my love

Doing fine. Watching shadows on the wall.

Piensa en mí de vez en cuando, viejo amigo.

The prudent leader "dreads and reflects on everything that can happen to him but is bold when he is in the thick of action." Xerxes listens patiently, but objects that "if you were to take account of everything . . . , you would never do anything. It is better to have a brave heart and endure one half of the terrors we dread than to [calculate] all of the terrors and suffer nothing at all. . . . Big things are won by big dangers.

I shall never be completely happy at it, for I shall never be able to do much thinking myself—and I have been just clever enough, in my youth, to mistrust everyone who tries to think for me.

existiera y nuestro terapeuta fue Tucídides.

For without some sense of the past the future can be only loneliness: amnesia is a solitary affliction.