Quotes About Inwardness

the feeling of having in the middle of my body a ball of wool that quickly winds itself up, its innumerable threads pulling from the surface of my body to itself.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people arent, and as a child, I really liked it.

We are such inward secret creatures, that inwardness is the most amazing thing about us, even more amazing than our reason.

is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly.

The inner story must be uncovered, personally, by each reader, according to ability and desire.

I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside of me.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.

The Kingdom of God is Within You, which in turn influenced such twentieth-century figures

We are several people fitted inside each other. Chinese boxes. Our bodies are the outside box. Or the inside one if you like.

When people looked at him they had the feeling of being shut out. He did not shut them out. He shut himself in.

The cities of the interior are vast and do not lie on any map.

To her, companionship must have seemed highly overrated.

Because it taught me right from the start to rely only on myself," he said

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.

One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself.

My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.

She expected nothing. She was in herself, the end itself.

Quiero ser anónima e íntima. Quiero hablar sin hablar, de ser posible.

Capta essa outra coisa de que na verdade falo porque eu mesma não posso.

Llevo un equipaje de silencio. Me he rodeado de un silencio tan hondo y duradero que nunca acierto a abrirme con las palabras. Cuando hablo, solamente me cierro de otra manera.

içimde olup bitenler, belirgin izler b?rakmad?.

Oh, my God, he's doing that thing again," Jackie said, staring at me as if I was a piece of alien technology that had just turned itself on. "You know, where he goes inside the guy's head.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.