Quotes about Reflection
I want my music to be a contribution, and I want the people who love me on Earth and in Heaven to be proud of who I am, and I want to be proud of myself, and I don't want to look back and say, 'Oh God, why did I say that?'
— India Arie
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.
— Marcel Pagnol
Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
— Phillips Brooks
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
— Oscar Wilde
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
— Oscar Wilde
In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.
— Oscar Wilde
while to propose to be a better man is a piece of unscientific cant, to have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. And such I think I have become.
— Oscar Wilde
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
— Oscar Wilde
One cannot always keep an adder in one's breast to feed one, nor rise up every night to sow thorns in the garden of one's soul.
— Oscar Wilde
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
— Oscar Wilde