Quotes about Reflection
I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
— Oscar Wilde
If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
— Aldous Huxley
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
— Dante Alighieri
No sensible person ever made an apology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation is a necessity of human nature.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
— Samuel Johnson
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
— Anonymous
At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all, accept these things.
— Albert Camus
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
— Emily Bronte
Silence is the unbearable repartee.
— GK Chesterton
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
— Samuel Johnson
Sorrow makes us all children again.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson