Quotes About Reflection

Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one… to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart What jailer so inexorable as one's self

Death should take me while I am in the mood.

She could no longer borrow from the future to ease her present grief.

I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!

Hers to be his to be hers ad infinitum, smoke smudging the bell of her throat. To what had been or might've been her thoughts migrated, cloth wall he pressed his hand against, he of the indelicate embrace.

Nickerson began to understand, as only an adolescent on the verge of adulthood can understand, that the carefree days of childhood were gone forever: "Then it was that I, for the first time, realized that I was alone upon a wide and an unfeeling world . . . without one relative or friend to bestow one kind word upon me.

Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absolutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.

Apart from being dead its going to be necessary to die. And I'm dealing at the moment with the realization that at my age there is absoutely no way in which I can skirt the matter and come out on the other side.

Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.

To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

Repeat the good. And the bad. Do it all...and pile on the years.

Strangely enough, when you get older the things you didn't understand when you were a child start to make sense. "When this happened, I should have done that." "When that happened, I should have said this." those types of things. You start to understand rather than regret. It may be closer to repentance. So it may be that I do want to repent and erase the ignorant self from my childhood.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

Live the kind of life you can be proud of in the end, even if you get lost or make mistakes along the way. The kind of life that'll earn you a "you fought well"... have lots of happy and sad times, and grow old like that.

The greatest regret I have in this life...is that that creature came out of my body.

I always have to lose my way first before finding my answer. But then, everyone does.

Being left behind, or leaving behind...I wonder which hurts more.

I was just... a little desperate. I was fed up with repeating the same mistakes day after day.

It's not because I don't like people that I don't go. I search for a compromise within myself... and while I'm busy thinking about it, I miss my chance...every time.

There are so many things I can never get back. So much pain. So many tears. So, so much. ...but even so...I'm tired of always looking down and missing what's important.