Quotes About Introspection

Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

One thing we knew for certain- despite all our certainties, it was very difficult to guess what one individual was thinking at any given moment.

In many instances, depressives may simply be judging themselves and the world much more accurately than non-depressed people, and finding it not a pretty place." Abramson

In a modern dictionary, the noun "melancholy" has two definitions. First, it means "thoughtful or gentle sadness.

I became sensitive, or at least hypocritical.

To accept duality is to earn identity.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Don't go bigger, go deeper.

I thought my dance alone through worlds of odd and eccentric planets that no one else knew would sustain me.

No. I was not okay. And neither was James Baldwin though his essays Were perfect spinning platters of comprehension of the fight To assert humanness in a black and white world.

Watch your mind. Without training it might run away and leave your heart for the immense human feast set by the thieves of time. Do not hold regrets.

The woman hangs from the 13th floor window crying for the lost beauty of her own life. She sees the sun falling west over the grey plane of Chicago. She thinks she remembers listening to her own life break loose, as she falls from the 13th floor window on the east side of Chicago, or as she climbs back up to claim herself again.

She thinks of the 4 a.m. lonelinesses that have folded her up like death, discordant, without logical and beautiful conclusion.

I remain very aware of my failures and often run them obsessively through my mind, which is a failure in and of itself.

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we're reading, we're thinking. It's a sort of spiritual, meditative activity. When we're looking at visual objects, I think our eyes are obviously directed outward, so there's not as much reflective time. And it's the reflectiveness and the spiritual inwardness about reading that appeals to me.

I would know of myself through the witnessing and naming of others. As Jesus in the Gospels is only seen and spoken of and recorded by others. I would know my existence and the value of that existence through others' eyes, which I believed I could trust as I could not trust my own.

I feel very transparent in myself. I'm more of an observer. I'm interested in what's going on. I'm not sure that I really have a personality. Some people think I do have a personality. I have a personality when I am with certain people — but when I'm not with them I don't have that personality. I just sort of go back to resembling a transparent glass of water.

Acting is the loneliest profession I know.

None of the rest of my life figures here.

The novel is the affliction for which only the novel is the cure.

Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

In marriage, the most intense conversations are often with oneself.