Quotes About Introspection

You asleep with your eyes open?" she asked him. Thomas tried to smile. "No. Just thinking about how much my life sucks." "Mine does too. Sucks big-time. But I´m glad I´m with you

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

I was standing in the most absolute aloneness that I had ever been given.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightening.

I opened my eyes and saw the dark in all its original color.

It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

A picture will leave me unmoved if I don't take time with it, but if I stop, and let myself get a little lost, there's no telling what might happen

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

Many people are caught in a knot of self-destructive behavior and are unable to see it or appreciate how they themselves have tied it. Each believes the problems lie somewhere "out there," surrounding them but beyond them, rooted in external circumstances. They also believe that the solutions to their problems are "out there" too—the right man, the perfect woman, a more appreciative boss, a more interesting job, the right diet.

To maximize the usefulness of realizations that may occur during your psychedelic voyage, it is invaluable to write out beforehand what you hope to learn, experience, understand, or resolve.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.

If a man felt hostility and aversion, but saw that he had poor or no grounds for his feeling, the remedy was to look for good or at least better grounds--a search hid predisposing thoughts would help him in.

I wanted to rub the human face in its own vomit and force it to look in the mirror.

When I am old, I hope to remember sadness unequivocally.

I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much – in just standing and staring.

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

you find your genius by looking in the mirror of your life. Your visible image shows your inner truth, so when you're estimating others, what you see is what you get. It therefore becomes critically important to see generously, or you will get only what you see; to see sharply, so that you discern the mix of traits rather than a generalized lump; and to see deeply into dark shadows, or else you will be deceived.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without