Quotes About Introspection

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

What goes on around you … compares little with what goes on inside you. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

I will go in this way And find my own way out

Da qualche parte in mezzo alle urla, il dolore leggero al fianco, la colpa, la perdita, sento una spina graffiarmi la retina... o forse è dietro, dentro al mio occhio, in fondo.

The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

Solitude is a powerful thing. People who can't use solitude always have to find some kind of bullshit to do.

we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

Admission to the school of self-inquiry is dependent rather on our motivation, willingness, and effort to explore the inner dimensions of our being.

Understanding arises out of silence rather than words.

We do indeed encounter new parts of ourselves by stripping away the veils of our slumber; we become aware of our essential character and are opened to capabilities beyond limits self-imposed through ignorance,

Svako pamti na svoj na?in, svako živi sam u svom svetu, svako misli da je on onaj misle?i subjekat koji nam svojim postojanjem omogu?ava da uživamo u onome što vidimo kao stvarnost sveta.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

Sometimes children must be left alone to be still and silent, and to do.

You've got to understand that the world's full of men who are little better than animals.... Problem is that a man is different from an animal. In the quiet afterward we know when we've done wrong.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I'm not getting old," Harry said, "I'm already old.

In order to feel remorse, there had to be a gray area, some part of the situation that made you uncertain of your choices. Noah

She had learned long ago that when something wouldn't make itself clear to her, what she needed to do was walk away from it for a short time.

He said we had become redundant to ourselves

wasn't as pleasant lately, Sam thought, as he made his way through the back entry to the detectives' division. There weren't so many people there

It's the same old conundrum. You couldn't ask questions about self-awareness until you became self-aware, but you couldn't become self-aware until you were able to grasp the concept of self-awareness.

There, in the dirty sludge of a winter highway, he learned for the first time that a lot of life is all in the mind.

realizes it's her own loneliness that she sees in him.