Quotes about Reflection

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

Nothing to be done. I'm beginning to come round to that opinion.

It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us

He that hopes to look back hereafter with satisfaction upon past years must learn to know the present value of single minutes, and endeavour to let no particle of time fall useless to the ground.

The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.