Quotes About Self-examination

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

The life you have built around you is a reflection of what is within you. If you don't like what you see, go inside.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Deep vers'd in books and shallow in himself.

Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems.

What is it now, pilgrim… your conscience?

It was himself that he was attempting to define as he worked on his study. It was himself that he was slowing shaping, it was himself that he was putting into a kind of order, it was himself that he was making possible.

For it seems to me now that when I read those books and wrote my words, I read and wrote of a man who bore my name but a man whom I hardly know. Strain as I might, I can hardly see him now; and when I glimpse him, he recedes as in a mist, eluding my most searching gaze. I wonder, if he saw me, would he recognize what he has become? Would he recognize the caricature that all men become of themselves? I do not believe that he would.

In the estimation of men, his life had been just and honorable; but in the presence of Christ he felt that his heart was unclean, and his life unholy. Nicodemus

Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.

Daca vreun om s-a devorat pe el insusi,acela sunt eu.

Am devenit propriul meu elev.Nu po?i nega la infinit.La ce bun s? ponegre?ti universul?Nu m? pot converti la nimic ?i totu?i nu-mi consider via?a un e?ec.

O la existencia o yo!». Uno de los dos debe ceder.

The book which, after demolishing everything, fails to demolish itself will have exasperated us to no purpose.

Educating yourself not to leave traces is a moment-by-momcnt war against yourself, solely to prove that you could, if you chose, become a sage….

no man concerned with his own equilibrium may exceed a certain degree of lucidity and analysis.

When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.

I wanted to rub the human race in its own vomit, and force it to look in the mirror.

La tentación del martirio es grande también, porque nos evita examinarnos profundamente. Pero de nada sirve convertirnos en enfermeros, terapeutas y guardianes 24 x 7 si vamos a acabar con nuestra salud y estabilidad mental en pocos años. La carrera es larga y sólo podemos aprovechar las oportunidades que pueden aparecer si tenemos reservas de confianza y energía para poder hacer alguna locura cuando parece valer la pena.

Every waking second is a chance to look past who you think you are right through to who you truly are.

She thought about this. She had analyzed it in depth. When you live alone, travel alone, exist solely on the outskirts of other people's lives, you do have time to wonder why what you want most in life is out of reach. You also have the time to tell yourself that you don't want it at all, though whether you can ever be completely convinced is something else.

onset of slow-creeping mortification

Try thinking more if just for your own sake

I hope they never have to go through the kind of soul searching that I am going through.