Negative Reflection Quotes

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding sour, but my best mate, David Beckham, got butchered after the World Cup in 1998, then my brother, Phil, after Euro 2000.

The mirrors in your mind can reflect the best of yourself, not the worst of someone else.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

I have done a lot of stupid things in my life.

Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

I went to a Catholic high school, which, to this day, I could burn down. And I got great revenge because they had their fiftieth anniversary, andThe Baltimore Sun called me and said, ‘What did you think of your high school?’ And I said, ‘They discouraged every interest I ever had.’ And I saw that in print.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

1992 is not a year I shall look back on with undiluted pleasure. In the words of one of my more sympathetic correspondents, it hasturned out to be an Annus Horribilis.

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

I can't say I was a very successful sorority girl.

The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.

It's a struggle for me to watch things I've been in because I'm just distracted and self-critical.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

I don't remember a lot of the good times from my days with the Truckers.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

A society that feels itself to be flourishing is likely to interpret everything that happens to its own advantage and in its own image. By contrast, a society that feels confused or in decline often converts any event - however innocuous - into a weapon of self-laceration.

I don't look back on any film I've done with fondness or pride.

I think I could look back through the past few years at missed opportunities and stuff, but one thing I have learned is not to dwell on missed chances or times where you have failed.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

The world in which we live today-reflecting in so many way the opposite of our sweetness and love-reminds us how desperately important it is to break the spell that's been cast on the human race and retrieve our shining self.

I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.