Quotes About Reflection

expression conveying to her, as male expressions would, the simple wish that he might connect with so pleasing a being, as if she were an angel with the power to remake a man's life, his sense of the past and of himself, as if a woman was something in which a man and his history, his pains, his failings, could reside.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

There is luxury in self-reproach.... When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated His ability.

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.