#reflective

With the buck before me suspended in immobility, there seems to be time for all things, time even to turn my gaze inward and see what it is that has robbed the hunt of its savour: the sense that this has become no longer a morning's hunting but an occasion on which either the proud ram bleeds to death on the ice or the old hunter misses his aim; that for the duration of this frozen moment the stars are locked in a configuration in which events are not themselves but stand for other things. ↗

— J.M. Coetzee

#death

My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail. ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#reflective #words #imagination

I am to a fault an introspective person. But I am not a reflective person - except for a big mistake, and then I really think about it. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#am #big #big mistake #except #fault

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#autumn #because #cousins #day #easter

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#black americans #democratic #democratic party #i #just

We are all only men, defined by our choices. ↗

— I.E. Castellano

#philosophical #reflective #thought-provoking #inspirational

One demonstration of extremists, any more than a Ku Klux Klan demonstration in the United States, is not necessarily reflective of what the rest of the country feels. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#country #demonstration #extremists #feels #klan

We chart delusions through collective agreement. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#reflective #men

I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#am #artistic #close #did #disparage

He felt as though he were failing in practically every area of his life. Lately, happiness seemed as distant and unattainable to him as space travel. He hadn't always felt this way. There had been a long period of time during which he remembered being very happy. But things change. People change. Change was one of the inevitable laws of nature, exacting its toll on people's lives. Mistakes are made, regrets form, and all that was left were repercussions that made something as simple as rising from the bed seem almost laborious. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#change