Quotes About Reflection

Ce sont tous les plaisirs du monde qui se retirent en nous disant adieu.

La angustia es una compañera tan antigua. Quizá no sea la compañera más agradable del mundo, pero es una buena consejera.

Sentía la necesidad de reconocer todo lo que había vivido. Sentía la necesidad de recuperar todo lo que aquí, tiempo atrás, descubrió del mundo.

Por lo menos no supe encontrar otra cosa que me consolase tanto del pequeño exceso de soledad que se había refugiado en mí.

si nous extrayions le morceau de vie qui piaffe au fond de chaque être vivant, nous sommes des fantômes en comparaison de ce morceau de vie. Nous sommes des ombres qui se frottent et se rencognent dans l'ombre de nos demeures et sous les draps qui couvrent nos lits, face à cette lumière qui transmigre de vivants en vivants.

J'aime la lecture car c'est la seule conversation à laquelle on peut couper court à tout instant, et dans l'instant.

A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self.

I ink, therefore I ham.

Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It was actually easier to believe they were men from Marlborough's army, than to think they'd been alive a year ago. It was as if all the other wars had distilled themselves into this war, and that made it something you almost can't challenge. It's like a very deep voice, saying; 'Run along, little man, be glad you've survived

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Silence becomes a woman.' Every woman I've ever known was brought up on that saying.

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.

I've enjoyed every age I've been, and each has had its own individual merit. Every laugh line, every scar, is a badge I wear to show I've been present, the inner rings of my personal tree trunk that I display proudly for all to see.

What are we running for When there's no where we can run to anymore?

You don't want to trash what you've done; that's your history.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

America's media seem utterly lacking in introspection. Do they understand why so many people hate them so? Do they care? Are they so smugly self-righteous and self-regarding they cannot see?

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

TV and more TV. It looks like something out of an old movie," Sam said. "Forty, fifty years ago, they were always dragging out the TV screens when they wanted to show what the glorious future would look like. As if the future was just going to be more TV." "And, as it turned out, it is," Rosa said.

Today's hard news stories were yesterday's dystopian SF. Rereading

What a name – Pyotr Frankis. I wondered who had made it up for him. Pyotr Frankis, Jascha – Slavs all over the place, it would seem. Just like my great-grandmother. I felt for her in my mind about the same way you'd feel for a stray piece of food in your mouth with your tongue, but as usual, I had no sense of her beyond a particularly intense memory.

We sat in good silence, for me relieved silence, watching the thick rush-hour traffic and the jammed streetcars -- all leaving us behind, leaving me feeling cast off and useless, remembering when I too hate somewhere to go, something to do.

There used to be so many good times, when I was your age." She ran her finger slowly round and round her cup, as though it were a fine-stemmed wine glass rather than a chipped and stained dining-room survivor, as though she were trying to recapture an echo of times past.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers, that the mind can never break off from the journey.