Quotes About Reflection

The past always fails those who grasp at it.

Although doesn't really matter how many time you do it: you think it's going to make your life less lonely, but it never does.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Copyright (C) 2012 by Rachel Swirsky

Do you not find it happens very often, that you are as gay as Garrick at dinner and then by supper-time you wonder why God made the world?

Do you know what vengence is, Tim? It is a dark mirror in which we cannot see ourselves.

even the silence, if you listened, meant something.

Richard was a character," another former employee who worked with him during this period reflected. "I wondered about his mental stability sometimes. There was something a little weird. 'Thoughtlessness' is the word that comes to mind.

Hughes would later count that moment—black and blue, manacled, borne into prison on that great wave of enthusiasm—as one of the greatest in his life.

Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.

What use is care ? What good is watching for that matter? People are forever watching things. They should be seeing . I see the things I look at. I am a see-er.

If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers... That way, when he finds the answers, they'll be precious to him. The harder the question, the harder we hunt. The harder we hunt, the more we learn.

I walked across the polished marble floor and sat on a red velvet lounging couch. I idly wondered how exactly one was supposed to lounge. I couldn't remember ever doing it myself. After a moment's consideration, I decided lounging was probably similar to relaxing, but with more money in your pocket.

I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself.

If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that... Well, then she didn't rightly know what happened next. But she hoped that after that the world would start to run itself a bit, like a gear-watch proper fit and kissed wit oil. That was what she hoped would happen.

If you fall, you fall," Elodin shrugged. "Sometimes falling teaches us things too." In dreams you often fall before you wake.

Then I played the song that hides in the center of me. That wordless music that moves through the secret places in my heart. I played it carefully, strumming it slow and low into the dark stillness of the night. I would like to say it is a happy song, that it is sweet and bright, but it is not.

Cuando somos niños, casi nunca pensamos en el futuro. Esa inocencia nos deja libres para disfrutar como pocos adultos pueden hacerlo. El día que empezamos a preocuparnos por el futuro es el día que dejamos atrás nuestra infancia.