Quotes About Reflection

The only good thing you ever said was goodbye.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

A bottle of wine was good company.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

A good funeral gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be.

Every day of the year is a good day to think more deeply about Good Friday, for Good Friday is the drama of the love by which our every day is sustained.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Every good painter paints what he is.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.

A good novel begins with a small question and ends with a bigger one.

I've been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it's happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'