Reflection Quotes

"I would like to be remembered as a thoughtful writer" "I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing" "The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk." "Hell is truth seen too late" "Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time" "An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves." "We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong." "The more you know, the sadder you get." "To philosophize is to learn to die" "There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." "To understand, I destroyed myself. The curious will come after me to know why I disappeared." "We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn" "Someday, in the distant rearview mirror of time, we will see all the early lessons in love etched and carved into our hearts " "There are no easy answers but there are simple answers" "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." "Doubt is but another element of faith" "How frail the human heart must be a mirrored pool of thought " "Silence? What can be better than to sit thus by the hour and be soothed with the world" "I am he that walks with the tender and growing night" "A writer's job is to give testimony, to bear witness to an age and the legacies of those who inhabit it."