reflection Quotes

We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

If you judge, investigate.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.