Quotes About Reflection

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

War would end if the dead could return.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

If you trust before you try, you may repent before you die.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

An answer is always a form of death.

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Live as you would have wished to live when you are dying

Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey - double and treble the reason for loving as well as working while it is day

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

In life you have to remember the people who have done good things for you in the past that you couldn't do for yourself.

Haven't heard from God lately? Think about this, the Teacher doesn't talk during a test!