Quotes About Introspection

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

Where every day doesn't start with an alarm clock and end with the television.

I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it's correct place.

Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television?

I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations.

Rip yourself open. Sew yourself shut.

This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...

I might be a touch of a sadist and a little bit jejune... but at least I'm not a victim, not any longer. I hope. I hope, therefore I am.

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

My stomach hurts, but if it's guilt or impacted stool, I can't tell. Either way, I'm so full of shit.

We see what we want. We see how we want. We only see ourselves.

We thought all this teaching was to make us smart. What it did was make us stupid. With all the little facts we learned, we never had the time to think.

I could imagine myself becoming one of Marla's stories.

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.

When you die, trust me, the most difficult person to leave behind is yourself.

The martyrdom of me.

The most boring thing in the entire world, Brandy says, is nudity. The second most boring thing, she says, is honesty. ...The third most boring thing in the entire world is your sorry-assed past. So Brandy never asked me anything.

I embrace my own festering diseased corruption

Peter used to say, The only thing an artist can do is describe his own face. You're doomed to being you. This, he says, leaves su free to draw anything, since we're only drawing ourselves. Your handwriting. The way you walking. Which China pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a Diary.