Quotes about Reflection

Live as if you living for the second time and had acted as wrongly the first time as you are about to act now.

The transitoriness of our existence in no way makes it meaningless. But it does constitute our responsibility; for now everything hinges upon our realizing the transitory possibilities.

To have a good conscience can never be the basis of a morally good existence; it is, rather, the result.

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

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

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.

Therefore I would ask you to write all kinds of books, hesitating at no subject however trivial or however vast. By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.

The most important thing is not to think very much about oneself. To investigate candidly the charge; but not fussily, not very anxiously. On no account to retaliate by going to the other extreme -- thinking too much.

Distorted realities have always been my cup of tea.