Quotes About Reflection

Change is an opportunity for everybody to think.

Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the liquor weaker, the gods kinder, the dice hotter - it might have all ended up in a one-sentence story.

I was very immature when I was young, and for me there was no balance. Everything was just all or nothing.

Sometimes the transition from being in control of your life to having absolutely no control is swift, but other times it is so gradual that you wonder exactly when it truly began.

I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.

Simons selected a victim just like himself, namely a Coloured schoolboy between the ages of eight to fourteen. Symbolically he committed suicide when he killed that boy, for he was killing himself.

My story is a story of very ordinary people during extrgordinarily terrible times. Times of which I hope will never, never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people all over the world to see that they do not.

in silence we all shared the same sorrow and memories.

Ambelsinën, ambelsinën e jetës kërko ta gjesh se e hidhuna e jetës vjen vetë.

Përditë shoh qartë e ma qartë dhe vuej thellë e ma thellë.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

Young lovers and young nations face the same problem: after orgasm, what?

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.