Philosophical Reflection Quotes

“The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“Name none of the fallen, for they stand in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.”
― Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

“You take many things from the world, but I wonder what you will give back in return?”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“There is much that is strange, but nothing that surpasses man in strangeness”
― Sophocles

“It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not”
― A.G. Phillips

“Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The world is full of people who are not bad, but weak, people who bring unnecessary misfortune upon themselves and others for no reason but weakness. A heroic spirit that's not devoted to human progress may be empty and meaningless, but goodness that is lacking in the spirit of heroism is often empty as well.”
― Genzaburo Yoshino, How Do You Live?

“Va’esse deireádh aep eigean, va’esse eigh faidh’ar.
(Something ends, something begins.)”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Sezon burz

“To
Fading self

The fear that life will shatter again
And the pieces you glue; will not be the same.”
― Yarro Rai, Abyss :

“In my quietest hours, I debate, deduce, and decide—who I am versus who I'm meant to be.”
― Aura Biru

“This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this...sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted...why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim”
― Joseph Conrad

“Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.”
― Susan Howe

“Birth pushes, death pulls; only you can slow the time between.”
― Jack Sanger, Azimuth: The Second Journey

“To know oneself is a journey that requires a beginning”
― Jack Sanger, Azimuth: The First Journey

“I just want to tell my story. Because this is what I do. I play Russian roulette with Fate, knowing someday a therapist will break confidentiality and turn me in. It’s like when I was a child, weighed down by guilt over some wrongdoing but fearing the punishment too much to confess outright. I’d drop clues, reasoning that if I was meant to be caught, those hints would chamber the round. Magical, childish thinking, but it’s what I do now. I tell my story and reason that if I’m truly meant to be punished, a therapist will turn me in.”
― Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost

“Człowiek projektujący rzeczy rozumnie musi nieraz mieć odwagę być śmiesznym.”
― Platon, The Republic

“I've been to hell and back. And let me tell you, it was wonderful.”
― Louise Bourgeois

“Having seen a person for who he is, let go. You do what is right, and good. The bad stays a hood. Accept it. And let go. For things are so.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“భగవంతుడే ఆశ్రిత పక్షపాతియట! తన భక్తులకు గానీ మోక్షమీయడట! జనులందరికీ మోక్షమేల యీయరాదు? ఆ మోక్షమంత పీనాసితనముగా స్వార్థపరముగా వాడుకొని, తుదికెవరికి కట్టబెట్టును?
ఆ తండ్రికా కొడుకన్నట్టు ఆ దేవునిచేత సృష్టించబడ్డ ఈ మనుషులూ ఇంతే. ...
ప్రధానమైన కామక్రోధాదులు, మదమాత్సర్యాదులు పైవారికే ఎక్కువ. ఏలననగా అవి ధనాదులవలన సమకూరిన శక్తిని��ట్టి వృద్ధి పొందును కనుక. ఎక్కువ దుష్టుడు తక్కువ దుష్టుని మీద కసిదీర్చుకొనుట వంటిది ఈ వ్యవహారము.”
― Viswanatha Satyanarayana, వేయిపడగలు [Veyi Padagalu]

“More often than not, superstition wins the day as it lifts the burden of responsibility off human shoulders and places it squarely on the much stronger ones of magic.”
― Marisa Silver, Little Nothing

“Brane im je zavidio. Mora da je to lijepo, pomislio je, u životu željeti ono što se može kupiti novcem.”
― Jurica Pavičić, Crvena voda

“Šoping-centar bio je prepun ljudi. Glavinjali su okolo poput lakomih životinja, baš kao da je taj dan posljednji dan nakon kojeg se trgovine više nikad neće otvoriti. Obitelji su se vukle zajedno, poput čopora, tegleći za sobom vreće i kese pune cipela, odjeće, igračaka i hrane. U vrećama i kesama primjećivao je tu i tamo natruhe sadržaja: kutije cipela, vitke svijećnjake, staklenke majoneze, repove sušenog bakalara. Promatrao je lica ljudi u žurbi, nemilosrdna, mrzovoljna, fokusirana na taj odsutni, posljednji grabež. Gledao je uokolo, istinski osupnut, i pomislio da nikad - čak ni u ratu - nije vidio ljudsku vrstu da je pala niže.”
― Jurica Pavičić, Crvena voda

“Kako nije mislio da će u Hercegovačkoj ostati dugo, u stan nije ponio mnogo stvari. Kad se useljavao, sa sobom je donio tek nešto odjeće, brijaći aparat i dokumente. U Mistu je ostavio sav dotadašnji život: radioprijamnike, knjige, alat, obiteljsku starinu. Nakon nekoliko mjeseci s iznenađenjem je shvatio da mu ništa od toga ne treba i da mu ništa od toga ne fali. Nije za sobom ostavio ni jednu stvar koja mu je trebala, ni jednu stvar za koju se vezao ili mu je bila važna. Bilo je to iznenađujuće otkriće - ali otkriće koje ga je oslobodilo.”
― Jurica Pavičić, Crvena voda

“I seize the faults – to quit.
But never ever, I enlist
The intent of relinquishing
The adequacy of my life;
If it gets chosen:
I may cast it off,
Unless I rase it off:
It surely would never go
Out of my eternal clench.”
― Harshvardhan Rai, The Analecta

“You don't know how much sunshine you've been missing until you wash the windows.”
― Carol L. Covin

“Men do not resolve to become stone-hearted; our lives calcify our tenderest elements, whether we will it or not.”
― K.W. Jeter, Grim Expectations

“Those who wander, are not lost.”
― Shannon Messenger, Exile

“Hope is the slowest poison.”
― Duncan Ralston, Dead Men Walking: a Novelette

“The sum total of all realities - perceived, conceived, observed or unobservable - all of them, in all forms, is but One Indivisible Totality. This "One" stays so in eternity, as infinity. It runs everything yet does not become anything. It is timeless, limitless, endless and beginningless. All comes from and goes unto it. Call "it" the Universal or Cosmic Self; or God. There is nothing else. Go search by yourself.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Mama Bird cannot help you.”
― Grace Poeta