Quotes about Reflection

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

The great events of the world take place in the brain...

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play. I tell you Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is

Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me