Quotes About Reflection

At the end, all that's left of you are your possessions. Perhaps that's why I've never been able to throw anything away. Perhaps that's why I hoarded the world: with the hope that when I died, the sum total of my things would suggest a life larger than the one I lived.

Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.

Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because it never comes out clearly enough when she tries to speak. Because she wants to rephrase the world, to take it in and give it back again differently, so that everything is used and nothing is lost. Because it's something to do to pass the time until she is old enough to experience the things she writes about.

We met each other when we were young, before we knew enough about disappointment, and once we did we found we reminded each other of it.

You do resemble me," the duke said. "The question is, does your blood run hot or cold?

A door to an alternate self. This self was another Alice, not the childhood Alice: capable, free in the world, independent.

Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth.

She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open and blank with possibility; terrifying, almost.

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An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, An inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.

I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.

I had lost relationships with my dad, my brother and sister and I was just like, you know what, this is definitely the time to just get it together and so that's what I did.

Growing up, my mom was very strict about how I dressed and how I behaved, and I said to myself that I wasn't going to be like that. But now I know I'm going to be exactly like my mom. I'm going to be worse!

We're inclined to excuse in ourselves behavior that we find unacceptable in others.

The good moments of the present are the good memories you will carry into the future.

Seek to know others and you will be amazed at how it will help you understand yourself.

Many people are unable to prepare for the future because they are too busy reliving the past.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.

Oh, what idiots we all have been. This is just as it must be.

It is a great pity that human beings cannot find all of their satisfaction in scientific contemplativeness.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Sometimes the child in one behaves a certain way and the rest of oneself follows behind, slowly shaking its head.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

It was strange to realize that after this night I would never see it again as it was. The room had never looked so beautiful as it did at that moment.