Quotes About Reflection

The human being...is a book reading itself.

I haven't been around here for long. Well... actually, I haven't been around anywhere for long. I don't know who I am, or what I'm here for. I know that Lord Umber's important, though. I've seen all the good things he's done. I know for sure the world needs him. I can't say that about me.

The sun was extinguishing itself on the watery horizon.

It's a queer thing, growing up. The years pile up, Hap, but at the same time I'm still ever age I ever was. When we stood before those sea-giants, I felt five years old, awed and scared. When I see a pretty lady, I'm eighteen again! And when my bones remind me, I feel all of my sixty years. All those ages are still inside me, all at once. The years stack up like sediment, and the layers remain.

While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

there are so many people deadand so many sea-walls that the red sun used to split,and so many heads that the boats hit,and so many hands that have closed around kisses,and so many things I would like to forget.

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

Art washes away from the soul, the dust of everyday living.

Art washes away the dust of everyday life.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

toda explicación absurda se aproxima a la verdad más que otras, precisamente porque la verdad es absurda y se busca en un espejo de iguales.

Trató de encender el cigarrillo que ya había encendido. Los tuertos hacen cosas así, se dijo buscando una imposible disculpa.

Después de los cuarenta empezaba a desconfiar de la memoria, hasta de la mejor memoria, la de las buenas intenciones.

El pasado retornaba en oleadas; huracanado pasado de mierda. Ni que fuera tan importante. Ni que valiera para nada más que para estar ahí depositado, sedimentado en la memoria, diciendo que ya no somos los que fuimos.

Era una relación pecaminosa. Pinche ángel caído. Era un pecado: acostarse con el pasado. Los que cogen con el pasado mueren, envejecen. Se enamoran de los ayeres y se quedan ahí para siempre, tiesos, congelados, sin poder volver.

Así es la muerte de cabrona, acaba con las vueltas, las disquisiciones, las opciones.

I'm gonna see an old lady with white hair, like the old ladies inna park, little bundles inna black shawl, waiting for the coffin. I'm fifty-six years old. What am I to do with myself? I have strength in my hands. I wanna cook. I wanna clean. I wanna make dinner for my children. I wanna be of use to somebody. Am I an old dog to lie in fronta the fire till my eyes close? These are terrible years, Theresa! Terrible years!

Maybe you ought to go, Charlie. CHARLIE No, they asked me. I told them I didn't want to go. HELEN It might do you good to have a night out. I know you're upset about the baby... CHARLIE I'm not upset... HELEN Come on, Charlie, I know how you feel. Listen, you don't have to pretend you're excited about having a baby. We weren't figuring on a kid right now, and it's a shock. Listen, I wasn't exactly overjoyed when I began to suspect I was pregnant.

I don't know. Sometimes, I look at Helen. And she's a nice girl and all that. She's pretty. But I feel I'm missing something. I look at Helen, I say: "I must have felt something special to marry this girl.

ease up. the day was rued when we came upon it, or when it came upon us, and beheld us marring the horizon, sitting here like unconquerable savages, men missing their dogs and talking pointlessly unless talk to the dead. let's sharpen something.