Quotes about Reflection
Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
— Mark Twain
Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.
— Henry David Thoreau
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
— William Law
All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.
— Thomas Jefferson
When death speaks to me, it speaks only of the beauty of life.
— Marty Rubin
What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.
— CS Lewis
The suicide! What would he have done if death did not exist?
— Marty Rubin
The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.
— John Updike
A good death is a death in solidarity with others. To prepare ourselves for a good death, we must develop or deepen this sense of solidarity.
— Henri Nouwen
He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."
— Anonymous
Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.
— Anonymous
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.
— Malcolm Muggeridge