78 Quotes About Reflection-on-life


  • Author Rachel Cusk
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    There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward - or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had.

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  • Author Cormac McCarthy
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    I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

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  • Author Khaled Hosseini
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    Pero la gente por lo general tiene una idea muy equibocada de sí misma. Creen que viven en función de lo que desean, cuando en el fondo lo que los guía es aquello que temen. Aquello que no desean.

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  • Author Carla Laureano
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    All that quiet, it gave me a lot of time to reflect on my life and how far I'd strayed from my values, from God. It's easy to creep away one step at a time... and then one day you realize you're calling yourself a Christian, but no one would ever be able to tell the difference.

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  • Author Helen Garner
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    Sometimes it seems to me that, in the end, the only thing people have got going for them is imagination. At times of great darkness, everything around us becomes symbolic, poetic, archetypal. Perhaps this is what dreaming, and art, are for.

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