"Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed."

Reflection, Giving, Mind, Rank

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"When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which "was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Reflection, Time, Memory, Loss

"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Reflection, Darkness, Fate, Sensitivity, Dream

"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

Reflection, Past, Fear, Regret, Guilt

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Death, Life, Surprise, Inspirational

"If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?"

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Shakespeare, Civilization, Progress, Philosophy

"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Reflection, Mortality, Life, Silence, Existence

"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."

Thomas Hardy, English Novelist

Reflection, Mind, Idea, Imagination, Introspection

"Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone... We've nourished nothing of our own."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Reflection, Empty, Time, Watching, Others

"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Reflection, Zone, Existence, Identity, Life

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

Benjamin Franklin, American Politician

Reflection, Life

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"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."

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"When we feel lost in time, with only shadows of the past living in our mind; when the moment, which "was", no longer "is and when only silence remains, loads of questions arise. We can cry a river or we may wonder: "What went wrong?"

"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream."

"The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and remorse may unsettle us during the effort to give our future a new home. ['Into a new life']"

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."

"If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?"

"We are only lightly covered with buttoned cloth; and beneath these pavements are shells, bones and silence."

"She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects."

"Maybe we feel empty because we spend so much of our own time watching other people live their lives, chase their dreams, express their love, and navigate their relationships. And when we turn off our TV or put down our phone... We've nourished nothing of our own."

"There is always a zone where somebody is nobody, there is always a zone where somebody is somebody and there is always a zone where nobody is nobody."

"To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."

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"The desire to write grows with writing."

"Man is to man either a god or a wolf."

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

"Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s."

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

"Concealed talent brings no reputation."

"It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is."

"Nowadays the rage for possession has got to such a pitch that there is nothing in the realm of nature, whether sacred or profane, out of which profit cannot be squeezed."

"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly."