Quotes About Reflection

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Where it concerned history, she saw things that people seldom did.

I could travel back in time, way back, when at a home with too many mouths to feed, love was a constant accompaniment to each spare meal. …. With my food, I could recall the person I used to be. Before everything changed.

At the king's landing stage, the heads of stone beasts swim in the water, and so do their own shapes, the shapes of gentleman, their forms broken by ripples, and the everted queen flickering like a flame in a glass; around them, the dance of mild afternoon sunshine, and a flood of birdsong.

Piensa bien antes de actuar, habla de acuerdo con la verdad, mira por dónde caminas y filtra el agua que has de beber (Manu Smriti).

I'm just like a dot separating two sentences swinging between the past and present of my life

On entend souvent parler du "poids des années"... Foutaises ! Le temps nous vide !

J'avais cru tout quitter pour vivre mieux, je m'étais trompé... c'était pour mourir plus vite.

CHAMA E FUMO Amor - chama, e, depois, fumaça... Medita no que vais fazer: O fumo vem, a chama passa... Gozo cruel, ventura escassa, Dono do meu e do teu ser, Amor - chama, e, depois, fumaça... Tanto ele queima! e, por desgraça, Queimado o que melhor houver, O fumo vem, a chama passa... Paixão puríssima ou devassa, Triste ou feliz, pena ou prazer, Amor - chama, e, depois, fumaça... A cada par que a aurora enlaça, Como é pungente o entardecer! O fumo vem, a chama passa...

Not what it could have been: It is what it was. And what it was is dead. Octavio Paz, Lesson of Things, 1955

UKIP largely sank without trace and not even Nigel Farage won a seat. This was a reflection of the fact that their vote was a purely anti-European protest vote which, after the success of Brexit, gravitated back towards its traditional home in the Conservative Party.

L'angoixava la certesa monstruosa que eren feliços sobre una muntanya de cadàvers.

Quiénes son los culpables, Carasso: los que odian o los que no quieren ver las consecuencias del odio.

Si crees que debe hacerse, lo haces; si no marcha como debiera, bueno, que te sirva de experiencia, pero nunca pienses que se trata de un fracaso.

la nostalgia es la mayor de las penitencias que cumplen los hombres al paso de los años.

Imposible mencionar a San Ángel sin recordar tiempos que pasaron y que, como las golondrinas de Bécquer, no volverán.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

la cara linda y alegre del muchacho en el recuerdo de la sirvientita y me digo yo: ¿qué es lo que la hace linda a una cara?, ¿por qué dan tantas ganas de acariciarla a una cara linda?

No, yo no me arrepiento de nada. Cada vez me convenzo más de que el sexo es la inocencia misma.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Io non ci credo alla faccenda del godi e non pensare al domani, Molina. Nessuno gode senza pensare al domani. Va bene solo per il paradiso terrestre.

Do you like reading? It's the best thing that can happen to you in life. Writing has other implications.