Quotes About Introspection

I was not always a man of woe.

No man knows himself as an original.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

And much it grieved my heart to think What man has made of man.

I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.

I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

A man has to know his limitations.

That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true--not true, or undeveloped.

If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

A man who is really earnest must begin with himself, he must be passively aware of all his thoughts, feelings and actions.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

To sensible men, every day is a day of reckoning.

Understand your man, meditate on it.

In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.