Quotes About Reflection

Thus, too, they came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose.

People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I sometimes think of what future historians will say of us. A single sentence will suffice for modern man: He fornicated and read the papers.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Don't wait for the Last Judgment. It happens every day.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem...

What do you see when you look and what do you hear when you read?

Dans les rues, je suis l'obsédé de ma morte, mornement regardant tous ces agités qui ne savent pas qu'ils vont mourir et que le bois de leur cercueil existe déjà dans une scierie ou dans une forêt, vaguement regardant ces jeunes et fardés futurs cadavres femelles qui rient avec leurs dents, annonce et commencement de leur squelette, qui montrent leurs trente-deux petits bouts de squelette et qui s'esclaffent comme s'ils ne devaient jamais mourir.

Car l'homme ne vit que durant un clignement de paupières et ensuite c'est la pourriture à jamais, et chaque jour tu fais un pas de plus vers le trou en terre où tu moisiras en grande stupidité et silence en la seule compagnie de vers blancs et gras comme ceux de la farine et du fromage, et ils s'introduiront dans tous tes orifices pour s'y nourrir.

Como eu gostaria de poder tirar fora, como o desdentado que tira a dentadura para depositá-la num copo d'água junto ao leito, tirar meu cérebro para fora de sua caixa, tirar meu coração que bate demais, esse pobre infeliz que cumpre bem demais seu dever, tirar fora meu cérebro e meu coração para mergulhá-los, esses dois pobres milionários, em soluções refrescantes, enquanto eu dormisse como um menininho que nunca mais voltarei a ser.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity.

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.