Quotes About Inwardness

Life's existential tasks have lost the interest of reality; illusion cannot build a sanctuary for the divine growth of inwardness which ripens to decisions. One man is curious about another, every one is undecided, and their way of escape is to say that some one must come who will do something--and then they will bet on him.

if poetry were to pay attention to the religious and to the inwardness of personalities, it would find themes of far greater importance than those with which it now busies itself

the best defenses of those who are less against those who are more: inwardness, forethought, cunning, humility, and good peripheral vision. The many lessons of lessness.

She feels her love inside her as if it were as tangible as blood and bones. They'll

Music is our myth of the inner life.

I'm not one that cares for publicity.

I never found anyone who could look after me as well as I could look after myself.

We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.

Amore è il fatto che tu sei per me il coltello col quale frugo dentro me stesso.

Le livre doit être la hache qui brise la mer gelée en nous.

At last I realized that Jesus Christ was actually and literally within me.

I FEEL ALL THE SAME THINGS WHEN I DO THINGS ALONE AS WHEN OLE GOLLY WAS HERE. THE BATH FEELS HOT, THE BED FEELS SOFT, BUT I FEEL THERE'S A FUNNY LITTLE HOLE IN ME THAT WASN'T THERE BEFORE, LIKE A SPLINTER IN YOUR FINGER, BUT THIS IS SOMEWHERE ABOVE MY STOMACH.

In order to know an object, I must know not its external but all its internal qualities.

I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.

They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

No one could rival Arthur Less for his ability to exit a room while remaining inside it. He sat, and his mind immediately left me behind.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

It seemed necessary for him to lift one shoulder in order to put his hand into his jacket pocket.

She carried a knife inside of herself now, one that was always cutting her. She could feel it every time she swallowed, every time her thoughts strayed from the splendor of the wild.

A volte mi prende qualcosa che non so definire: non è angoscia, non è desiderio, è un ignoto tumulto interno che minaccia di lacerarmi il petto, che mi stringe la gola.

dingin bir varolu? duygusuna öylesine dal?p gittim ki, sanat?m bundan zararl? ç?k?yor. "

The most virtuous hearts have a touch of hell's own fire in them.

The past beats inside me like a second heart.