Quotes about Reflection

The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.

Someday he would write his memoirs, when his adventures had arranged themselves into a suitably attractive package.

Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

It is at Dusk that the most interesting things occur, for that is when simple differences fade away. I could live in everlasting Dusk.

People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.

My life's harvest is not the building material for anything, neither in my time, now, nor in any other, never.

I often crossed it inadvertently when out that way on my daily rounds. But I also liked to cross it on purpose, deliberately stepping to and fro. A dozen times, or several dozen times. I'd amuse myself like that for half an hour—playing the game of crossing the border. It gave me pleasure, because I could remember the time when it wasn't possible. I love crossing borders.

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am. At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between?

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

And if I should live to beThe last leaf upon the treeIn the spring,Let them smile, as I do now,At the old forsaken boughWhere I cling.