Quotes about Reflection
Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.
— Marcus Aurelius
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.
— William Faulkner
I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.
— Diane von Furstenberg
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
— John Milton
Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.
— John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent, ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, and that one talent which is death to hide lodg'd with me useless.
— John Milton
He knew himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
— John Milton
Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.
— John Milton
Others apart sat on a hill retir'd,In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high of Providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.
— John Milton
Hail divinest Melancholy.
— John Milton