Gregory David Roberts Quotes

Mirrors should think longer before they reflect.

I learned from my past.

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

I can see myself before myself - a being through dark scenery.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger - no supper, no breakfast.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

I wandered through the streets thinking of all the things I might have said and might have done had I been other than I was.

We are the mirror - As well as the face in it.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

I'm not really one for regrets.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

I'd be lying to you if I said I had not done some soul searching.