Quotes About Introspection

Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.

We enter into no illegal turpitude until rather careful reflection has assured us of its expediency.

None the less, I think there is something in me which will endure. I am fettered by cowardice, I am enfeebled by disastrous memories; and I am maimed by old follies. Still, I seem to detect in myself something which is permanent and rather fine.

Hello? Testing? My name is Jonathan Collins. I am seventeen years old. Today is... some day in July 1993. And I am okay. Scratch that, I am more than okay. I am... I am... I AM.

Warm chairs. I don't know, like I'm sitting on someone's leftover germs.

I have been invaded by my own secrets and I must try to find out how to live with them.

Have men always been terrified of their true nature? Is all history a record of their denials of themselves?

He watched the aperture of the young women's lovely face close ever so slightly and felt a pang in his heart.

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Closeting your failures only prolongs your future

If you cant look deep inside someone to see the butterfly building within then you deserve to watch the moth transform and fly away

Lent survives as a much moderated version of this self-imposed discomfort.

Avoiding other people was his new goal in life.

Are they changed because they want to go back to their old life, or is it because they're so depressed at realizing their old life was no better than what we have now?

Being holed up in here does wonders for making the brain do what it was made for.

Okay." He hesitated. One word. So far, not so good.

The dreams came. The memories. More vivid than ever before. As if the depth of his exhaustion had created the perfect canvas for them.

These people will think their way around an ice cream cone before ever giving it a lick.

sometimes knowing sucked.

What do you mean?" He suddenly found himself wishing she'd hug him again.

The only way out is within.

Michael was not himself. He lay on the bed of a stranger,

Once he let go of thinking about things in such a black-and-white manner, he was able to start seeing his own thoughts and conscience as things he could mentally manipulate. That was when he started making progress.

it occurred to him that maybe the world wasn't so bad after all... gradually details he hadn't noticed began to come into focus... Almost everyone looked uneasy. They all seemed to be avoiding each other-and not just to be polite. They seemed to take serious measures to stay clear of everyone else.