With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
Reflection makes men cowards.
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.
I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.
I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.