Quotes About Introspection

It was one of those subjects to which everything that slithers across your brain seems relevant. I find this to be true of most topics.

I've often been accused of harnessing genre strategies to mainstream ends. I do concede that relationships, characters, and introspection are my primary interest. The fanciful is of a secondary order of importance; I usually use it to approach the large issue of perception, so that my fantastical elements, while intended as real within the stories, occupy some borderland between reality and psychology.

What did it mean, all this personal looking backward? What were people hoping to find? What bearing, really, did their ancestry have on who they were now?

Over the years I've come to feel that the way people respond to us has less to do with what we've done and more to do with who they are.

Svatko misli o tom kako promijeniti svijet, ali nitko ne misli kako promijeniti sebe.

I raised the ratio of things I thought to things I said from three to one, to four to one, to five, to six, to seven. I still thought as much as ever, and sometimes I imagined the responses I would have gotten if I had spoken up and what I would have then said next, and so on and so on. Without the release of talking, these thoughts crowded my brain. The inside of my head turned clamorous and outlandish, like the Mos Eisley spaceport bar in Star Wars.

At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.

We sat around our own table, an island of sad reflection in an ocean of merry din.

solipsism. According to solipsism, reality exists only inside

So many people have the TV or radio constantly turned on for company, or spend their time reading trashy novels, aimlessly surfing the Net, and so on. Then suddenly one day you are old or sick and you realize you have done nothing with your life. All your thoughts are other people's thoughts and you have no idea who you really are or what the purpose of your life might be.

it at the same time. Dreaded the pain of looking at

Humans believed they thought things consciously when most of the time they were simply rationalizing instinctive reactions as basic as the amoeba's, and after those reactions had already taken place.

Regular people said they couldn't tell the difference between one clone and another, did they? That was what came of spending too much time looking at faces and not enough wondering what shaped people and went on inside their heads.

the best way to stop worrying about your inevitable demise is to dwell on it morbidly until you're so bored that you forget it.

Given enough idleness & time, she could talk herself into either loving or hating the man

Sara was reminded of yet another one of Will's traits, which was that he had an uncanny knack for keeping his mouth shut when he didn't know what to say. This resulted in the sort of awkward moments that made Sara's dating life look downright ebullient.

My court-appointed therapist would say I was trying to fill a hole." "Is that what you call your vagina?" Claire chuckled under her breath.

Life was like that. You didn't realize what was passing you by until you slowed down a little bit to get a better look.

Personality shots," her roommates used to call the first drinks of the night. Liquid courage. Whatever you called it, the point was to turn off the voice in your head that reminded you of everything wrong in your life.

herself, but what would she find? A kept woman who was incapable

the easiest way for a man to get into your heart was if you imagined what he was like as a child.

En eso consistía la vida: nunca te das cuenta de lo que pasa hasta que te detienes un momento para observarlo con calma.

She knew from before: the moment se let her guard down, the world would spiral into a distant but familiar abyss.

looked like a deformed monkey holding either a baseball bat or an erect penis in his three-fingered hand. Lena sighed, wondering what the fuck she was doing here. Maybe she should just go to the station tomorrow and talk to Jeffrey. There had to be a way to convince him that she was not involved in this case. She should just go home right now, pour herself a drink, and try to get some sleep, so that when the