111 quotes found
“I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.”
“Habit rules the unreflecting herd.”
“Not everyone born free and equal, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A b...”
“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a...”
“You're surroundings can either be a reflection of you or you can end up being a reflection of your surroundings. Ultimately, one will occur noticeably or unnoticeably.”
“And I have wondered often, was I master in my soul, or did I become the slave of my own blade?”
“Introspective reflections that might otherwise be liable to stall are helped along by the flow of the landscape...”
“Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.”
“Author refers to, "short silences in which the resolves which colour a life are so often taken.”
“There is nothing wrong with standing back and thinking. To paraphrase several sages: 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.”
“Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance?”
“Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.”
“We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, an...”
“But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that didn't sit well on the shoulders of a woman who had just begun to open her eyes to the wide world.”
“Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?”
“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?”
“Universe is an empty mirror. World is just the reflection of your thoughts.”
“I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the days of my life, already lived,and held like a legend, and understood.”
“You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to be p...”
“Nothing can be more perfect in my world than the imperfection it must match.”
