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Quotes About Introspection

When your emotions or your behavior are contrary to your own self-image, it's time to stand back and reassess.
~ Randy Wayne White
Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.
~ Ranjit Hoskote
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Daydreaming subverts the world.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Thanks to the magic of the imagination, everything exists solely to be manipulated, caressed, broken apart, put back together or altered in any way I wish. Once the primacy of subjectivity is accepted the spell of things is broken. Started from other people, the search for the self is fruitless; we repeat the same futile gestures time after time. Started from oneself, on the other hand, actions are not repeated but rather revisited, corrected and fully realized.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
Do not seek what you do not wish to find.
~ Raphael Cohen-Almagor
The hand should not necessarily be the quickest organ in one's body when one is writing.
~ Raphael Cohen-Almagor
you may run, run away, but you can never run away from yourself.
~ RAS CARDO REGGAE
In early high school years, I was pretty chubby, and I spent a lot of time on my computer, before it was cool to have a computer - because there was a time that was true. So that's where I developed my personality.
~ Rashida Jones
Soy el pensamiento en el baño en la habitación sin espejo.
~ Rauda Jamis
o my mind, get me to meet me and then onwards, mind your own business.
~ Ravindra Pasale
Other humans gaze at the sky, but I say unto you, the only way through the world is to pass through the underground.
~ Rawi Hage
I don't judge those who can't dream, those who need to pierce their arms to create different worlds under their skin, because I am fortunate in the tools of my escapes
~ Rawi Hage
Singleness can be a wonderful furnace.
~ Ray Blackston
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
~ Ray Bradbury
I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry, thinking I myself was weeping, and I felt my face and it was dry. Then I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it's just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over, sadder still, and fumbled about for my dripping sleep and tried to slip it back on.
~ Ray Bradbury
Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.
~ Ray Bradbury
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
~ Ray Bradbury
We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
~ Ray Bradbury
Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.
~ Ray Bradbury
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
~ Ray Bradbury
I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
~ Ray Charles
There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities ?I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.
~ Ray Charles
Man warring on himself an old tale is; But Man discovering the source of all his sorrow in himself, Finding his left hand and his right Are similar sons, are children fighting In the porchyards of the void?!
~ Ray Douglas Bradbury