Reflection Quotes

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes." "I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire I give it to you not that you may remember time but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it." "Where is the Life we have lost in living Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information" "The past is never dead It’s not even past" "So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now" "You are the sum of all the moments of your life." "We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness" "Life is for the living, death is for the dead. Let life be like music and death a note unsaid" "Every man's memory is his private literature" "I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy. Second, there are no tragic answers, only silent ones." "Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning." "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What’s that, a bonus?" "And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years" "Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs" "What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action"