Quotes About Reflection

I always think about suicide because I find it relaxing.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

I look at every book as a self-help book.

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

When you're young you really think you're angry for reasons and causes. As you get older, you realize you might just be angry.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

absorb them, and relegate them to the status

and he was now almost seventy years old.

I find myself agreeing with Goethe, who when told he too worked excessively, replied that he had all eternity to rest. Eternity is unavoidable, but until it embraces me, I shall keep myself fully consumed with living.

Reason is the first casualty in a drought.

Marc Shapiro

The magic moment is a slight quieting, a lull in being busy, a slight staring off, and a hint of calmness.

Je venais de tomber dans mon propre passé. Fort heureusement, je connaissais bien les risques inhérents aux paradoxes temporels, et j'eus le bon réflexe de ne pas m'attarder.

Besides, it's always other people who die.

D'ailleurs c'est toujours les autres qui meurent.

The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

All in all, the creative act is not performed by the artist alone.. the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.

Si je perdais ma bibliothèque, j'aurais toujours le métro et l'autobus. Un billet le matin, un billet le soir et je lirais les visages. [in Citations de Marcel Jouhandeau]

C'était mon premier grand départ. Si voyager seul, c'est voyager avec le Diable, je me félicite de l'avoir fait.

Rien ne rend plus léger parfois qu'une certaine horreur de soi.

Voor sommige mensen is geluk zoiets ongewoons, zo zeldzaam, nieuw of vreemd, dat ze er nooit van kunnen genieten als ze gelukkig zijn, maar altijd pas achteraf, als het besef komt dat ze toen, op dit of dat moment, gelukkig waren.

It's good to shut up sometimes.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Warum es den Menschen so schwer fällt, glücklich zu sein? Weil sie die Vergangenheit besser sehen als sie war, die Gegenwart schlechter als sie ist und die Zukunft rosiger als sie sein wird.