Quotes About Introspection

Vä?šina ?udí nemá potuchy o svojich temných stránkach, a predsa ich majú vÅ¡etci. Odhalia ich ?asto okolnosti, vojny, hladomor, revolúcie, genocídy. A ke? sa ?udia po prvý raz v skrytosti svojho vedomia nad nimi zamyslia, z?aknú sa ich a nasko?ia im zimomriavky.

Op mijn leeftijd ga je niet in één klap dood. Je bent als een huis waarvan de luiken worden gesloten, waar de meubels een voor een worden weggehaald, waar eerst het gas wordt afgesloten, dan het water, en ten slotte het licht, totdat de deur voor de laatste keer op slot wordt gedraaid en de sleutel wordt weggegooid. Een grappige gedachte. Niemand ziet het, maar ik glimlach.

Aunque sepa que un día morirá, el hombre no puede vivir continuamente en un mundo que no le devuelve más que la conciencia de su propia muerte, un mundo saturado de muerte y que sólo ha sido ideado para eso.

Cuando le pregunté si no le pesaba la soledad, se quedó pensando un buen rato y luego, con voz grave y serena dijo: «Estar solo es el sino del hombre, de un modo u otro». Me pareció una frase muy hermosa y muy falsa a la vez. Tú no estás a mi lado, pero es como si te sintiera junto a mí a cada segundo, y te hablo a menudo, en voz alta.

Rien n'est tout noir, ni tout blanc, c'est le gris qui gangne. Les hommes et leurs âmes, c'est pareil... T'es une âme grise, joliment grise, comme nous tous...

Qué es la vida sino un collar de heridas que cada hombre se cuelga del cuello?

C'est pas toujours facile, le soir, d'entrer dans une chambre et de s'asseoir au bord du lit pour défaire tranquillement ses lacets et ensuite se glisser dans les draps et regarder le plafond d'un coeur léger.

Je mes suis entendu lui dire que c'était vrai, qu'il était responsable de cela, mais de cela seulement.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you

Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it...the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.

Autobiography is an unrivalled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

I have also time on my hands to correct my opinions, and polish my periods;

The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.

Have I inadvertently said some evil thing

I alone knew what I had suffered. I alone knew what it felt like to be alive but dead.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought," and "As a man thinketh, so he is.

Neko? v prihodnosti se bomo znašli v situaciji, ko bomo morali sprejeti vse, kar smo v preteklosti storili drugim, in to velja tako za dobre besede in dejanja kot za ostre in ponižujo?e.

Šele sedanje trpljenje zaradi krivice, ki smo jo neko? prizadeli drugim, nas pripelje do spoznanja, kako bole?e je bilo zanje takšno nepremišljeno in brezsr?no obnašanje.

Vloge, ki jih igramo, in maske, za katerimi se skrivamo, uporabljamo zato, da se nam ne bi bilo treba ukvarjati s seboj in s svojimi pomanjkljivostmi.

Writing is… a descent into the self.

Most people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it's just a bookshelf.

During this week, Ragan has experience a bit of insecurity with me, the result of my being quieter than usual, which he interprets as being a withdrawal from him. "No," I countered, "it is a withdrawal into myself." I do not think the same need exists in him. Quiet can be the two of us reading silently. But he prefers that I be nearby. I need regular time without anybody else around in order to feel restored.

Everything we are given or learn or possess in any real sense - - the ability to play Beethoven sonata, write books, understand the principles of physics – is intended for one thing: to draw us closer to our selves.

There is guidance for each of us," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, "and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word.