Quotes About Reflection

Oysa Serap'?n 'o zamanlar' dedi?i her ?ey, ?imdi ona çok uzak geliyor. Y?llarla tart?lmayacak bir uzakl?k bu. Hem herkesin y?llar? bir de?il ki! O günler: Ne ac?, ne tatl?, sadece uzak. Uzakl???n her zaman bir kay?p anlam?na gelmedi?ini biliyor.

Each time we re-read a book we get more out of it because we put more into it a different person is reading it, and therefore it is a different book.

You asked me whether I was afraid, but to be afraid or sad doesn't mean one is making a mistake. it just means one is not listening carefully enough.

breathe in experience breathe out poetry

I am working out the vocabulary of my silence.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

What three things can never be done? Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone. The hill of glass, the fatal brilliant plain.

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom.

It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life.

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

I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.

Faites connaître vos décisions, jamais vos raisons. Vos décisions peuvent être bonnes, vos raisons seront certainement mauvaises.

We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species.

Book lovers are not necessarily people lovers.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.

Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.

The shadow is the image of ourselves that slides along behind us as we walk toward the light. The persona, its opposite, is named after the Roman term for an actor's mask. It is the face we wear to meet the social world around us.

The sleep of a wise man is far better than the worship of an ignorant one during the night.

Silence is a great wisdom.

1. Dear ladies, if your friend advises you to walk, enjoy life, pursue a career, and not think about the feelings of the male? So, she wishes you happy loneliness in middle and old age. 2. Even in the worst, there is something funny. 3. We die exactly as much as the world ceases to be needed. 4. Humanity is drowning in its own shit.