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Reflection Quotes
"I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case."
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"She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms."
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"You can deceive yourself with truth too. That's an even more dangerous dream."
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"When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over."
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"The greatest ideas are best conceive when we take time to relax."
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"When our mind is in shambles and we dare to reflect on the story of our life, we may discover, in the stream of our thoughts, the fault line between what we have underfelt and what we have overthought on our way. ['Axel Red']"
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"Only memories have a future."
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"In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time."
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"Because just as all political and historical change sooner or later disappoints, so does adulthood. So does life. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn t all it s cracked up to be."
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"Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything."
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"We must account for the life that we lived. A person inevitably will ask himself or herself on their deathbed, 'what was the aim of my life,' 'what did I accomplish,' 'what did I not accomplish,' 'what would I alter if I could live my life all over again'? What we discover on our deathbeds is that material luxuries afford no solace. We cannot purchase, possess, or legally acquire what is pure: love, beauty, truth, goodness, and imagination."
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"For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of Jesus Christ."
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"She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite."
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"I have lost my spark, I'm told, and should seek to rekindle it. Respecting the messenger, I wonder if this is true. I feel as if my spark endures, but having opened up to the world so bright, perhaps it no longer shines by comparison. So, without a word, I slip back into seclusion to nurture my beautiful inner glow."
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"Was this their exact exchange? Almost certainly not. Still, it is my best memory of their exchange."
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"The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed."
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"Is what I did really so bad? So bad I deserve to die? So bad I deserved to die like that?I what I did really so much worse than waht anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it."
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"You still know that boy. He was very angry at fourteen, fifteen, in summer and winter, at home or in the world. So angry that his face contorted in photos. The camera was a question and his face did not know the answer."
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"In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was."
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"I have to learn to hear music, to see beauty, and to find joy in silence"
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"People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot."
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"You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day --- When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse."
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"The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?"
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"Tell me, how do get away from your own self? she questioned. I knew what she meant with a sickening realization. They knew what I was. Somehow, they had found out my only secret."
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"As long as we have MEMORIES, yesterday REMAINS and as long as we have HOPE, tomorrow AWAITS..."
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"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual."
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"Very little is given to how we should think about essential matters."
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"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
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"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter."
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"Worse still, he doesn't know how to follow the piper anymore because it's a path Tom has lost faith in.And the piper knows it. Tom can see it in his father's eyes now. And the more he stares, the clearer it becomes."
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"He cross-examined his very wine when he had nothing else at hand."
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"This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions."
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"Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general state of mind which I have indulged for nearly a fortnight past; Reason having come forward and told in her own quiet way , a plain, unvarnished tale, showing how I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;-- I pronounced judgment to this effect:-- That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life: that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed the poison as if it were nectar."
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"Do you ever go back?"Ruthann nods, "When I need to remember where I came from, or where I'm headed."
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"She found a dark satisfaction in pain-because that pain came from him."
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"Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries.Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them."
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"Maybe I should have given more thought to her thoughts."
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"AND IF WE ARE TO STRIVE FOR A BETTER FUTURE, MUSTN'T WE BE FAMILIAR AND RECONCILED WITH OUR PAST?"
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"Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond."
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"Ain't that a sight? With all the things we know and learn, we still ain't touched the big mysteries -- where we come from, where we go next, why we even her. And when something truly miraculous happens, we run and hide in our caves. We deny."
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"Why should you care so much about what others think of you, than what you think about yourself?"
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"The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do."
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"Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things."
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"Instead of writing my rules, I followed his. And that's when I knew it all went wrong."
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"If I had a choice, if I had understood earlier that the reason my days were all the same was because I wanted them like that, perhaps..."
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"Isn't it queer that the things we writhe over at night are seldom wicked things? Just humiliating ones."
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"The world is full of vanities."
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"I can see myself before myself-A being through dark scenery."
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"If we go down the rabbit hole of our unconsciousness and try to unravel the knotty points of our life story we may encounter a bunch of hidden niceties or emotional stowaways. Forgotten details in the windmill of our mind may daintily reveal, where things might have gone wrong. ['I wonder what went wrong.']"
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