Quotes About Inwardness

The sun shines not on us but in us.

In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead

I knew that love gives to him that loveth, power over any soul beloved, even if that soul know him not, bringing him inwardly close to that spirit; a power that cannot be but for good; for in proportion as selfishness intrudes, the love ceases, and the power which springs therefrom dies.

After all, that is what the merely casual onlooker always sees — the outward appearance, the non-functional, the surfaces of things. No one who is really involved in the landscape ever sees the landscape.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

The eye sockets of their skulls are dark, like they've got all the night inside their heads.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. True

For what a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world. An intellectual man in complete solitude has excellent entertainment in his own thoughts and fancies, while no amount of diversity or social pleasure, theatres, excursions and amusements, can ward off boredom from a dullard.

It had to do with the way she lived, in the country of her own skin. A country that issued no visas and seemed to have no consulates.

All answers to life's key questions are found within.

All the stuff that was important or interesting about me was what I couldn't share.

I have opened my belly and placed you inside.

Aveva deciso di non parlare più, mai più. Ormai era l'unica forma di protezione che riuscisse a immaginare. Neanche una parola, da lui non avrebbero cavato più niente. Sarebbe diventato un blocco compatto di silenzio, una superficie liscia e scivolosa contro cui la sventura sarebbe rimbalzata senza trovare un accesso.

He was telling the story and the failures and the endless journey of mankind. They got tricked and trapped and bamboozled, but it was a great journey. And no demon that was ever foaled could know the inwardness of it -- it took a man to do that.

If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.

Devo deixar minha alma do lado de fora antes de entrar?

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding

Prayer is a refusal to live as an outsider to my God and my own soul.

I live absolutely like an oyster.

Mais elle, sa vie était froide comme un grenier dont la lucarne est au nord, et l'ennui, araignée silencieuse, filait sa toile dans l'ombre à tous les coins de son cÅ"ur.