Quotes About Introspection

And couldn't it be I was young and mad If ever my heart on my sleeve I wore? There's many to claw at a heart unclad, And little the wonder it ripped and tore.

Es una lástima que el brillo de los ojos de una persona solo sea el brillo de los ojos de una persona, y que uno no pueda descifrar con una sola mirada qué lo produce.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses.

There is almost nothing more useless than a New Mexican in a metaphysical mood.

Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence. - Rimmer

All true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can only be obtained through suffering. Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind of man to that which is hidden from his fellows.' That

Did I do anything wrong today, he said, or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts.

I don't know what I'm looking for." "What not?" "Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn't be able to look for them.

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion on them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.

I'm so great even I get tongue-tied talking to myself.

I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

Ok, he said, I don't like to disturb you at what I know must be a difficult and distressing time for you, but I need to know first of all if you actually realize that this is a difficult and distressing time for you.

I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my life-style

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

For as long as he could remember, he'd suffered from a vague nagging feeling of being not all there.

He sniggered. He didn't like to think of himself as the sort of person who giggled or sniggered, but he had to admit that he had been giggling and sniggering almost continuously for well over half an hour now.

After a while he played with the pencil and the paper again and was delighted when he discovered how to make a mark with the one on the other. Various noises continued outside, but he didn't know whether they were real or not. He then talked to his table for a week to see how it would react.

great book stands the test of time unlike my good self.........

She stared at them with the worried frown of a drunk trying to work out why the door is dancing.

It is difficult to be sat on all day, every day, by some other creature, without forming an opinion about them. On the other hand, it is perfectly possible to sit all day, every day, on top of another creature and not have the slightest thought about them whatsoever.