Reflections Quotes

160 quotes by 150 authors

He studied cities as women study their reflections. — O. Henry
A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we… — Stephen Elliott
When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects… — Brigham Young
You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is… — Marquis de Sade
In this mirror, I am enclosed a live and real as you. Imagine angels and not like the reflections. — Guillaume Apollinaire
It was that sort of sleep in which you wake every hour and think to yourself that you have not been sleeping at all; you… — Kim Stanley Robinson
What you think of as they past is a memory trace, stored in the mind, of a former Now. When you remember the past, you… — Eckhart Tolle
The loved object is simply one that has shared an experience at the same moment of time, narcissistically; and the desire to be near the… — Lawrence Durrell
People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while theyâ€™re reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and… — Ayn Rand
If she were here I wouldn't be able to keep my hands off her. I would hold her so close she'd beg me to let… — Juliet Marillier
Night had comeâ€”night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than… — Virginia Woolf
Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. — Victor Hugo
Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as… — George MacDonald
People dread silence because it is transparent; like clear water, which reveals every obstacleâ€”the used, the dead, the drowned, silence reveals the cast-off words and… — Janet Frame
Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade… — Mira Grant
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such… — James Madison
The sun shines down, and its image reflects in a thousand different pots filled with water. The reflections are many, but they are each reflecting… — Mata Amritanandamayi
When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us.… — Jon Katz
The first thing I hear when I wake up is the sea, which is so close to our house that its reflections from the sun… — Craig Brown
I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and youthful… — John Woolman

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