Quotes about Reflection

He's more myself than I am.

Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life, he answered; and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.

In every cloud, in every tree — filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men, and women — my own features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!

I have fled my country and gone to the heather.

In all of England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's Heaven

I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

You may fancy a glimpse of the abyss where I grovelled!

It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them.

The longer he stood, the plainer his reflections revealed their blackness through his features.

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!