Quotes about Reflection
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
— Brigham Young
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
— Washington Irving
As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
— John Donne
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
— Walt Whitman
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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