Quotes About Introspection

Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything is a self-potrait. Everything is a diary.

Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list...Seeing it down in black and white, somehow you're always disappointed in your life expectancy. How little you'll get done. The resume of your future.

It's the martyrdom of Saint Me.

La verdadera inteligencia empieza cuando uno deja de citar a los demás...

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

Even a killer needs to talk, to tell his life story, so bad he'll come and sit beside a grave or a rotting body and just blab, blab, blab at it for hours. Until he makes sense. Until the killer can convince himself with the story of his new reality. The reality that--he was right.

Leggere non è un passatempo da comitiva. Non è come andare a vedere un film o assistere a un concerto. È il margine più solitario dello spettro.

One step to the sink, and I calmly begin to scrub my dripping hands, careful to pick and scrape the words sorrow and tragedy from where they're lodged beneath each fingernail.

Solitude is a natural place for a writer to be.

you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself.

The best way to waste your life is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch.

I don't know who to believe, all I know is my feathers are on fire.

And I used to be such a nice person.

La autoperfección es simple masturbación, sólo la autodestrucción conlleva evolución

I'm not stupid, but I'm getting there.

Writers write because they weren't invited to a party.

My goldfish and me, both of us are just here swimming in one place.

Why is it that I occur as a story to everyone except myself?

So long as my checks cleared, I'd no interest in figuring down to the penny how poor I always was. For the same reason, I've put off writing a book on writing. I didn't want to be faced with how little I could offer on the subject. How stupid I remained after all this time and practice.

It's all easy, it's not about looking good at least not on the surface, but you still win. 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.....

Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.

This, and the club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the center of attention but completely cut off from participating with anyone else. You're the corpse in an English murder mystery.

No matter what world you create you're always dealing with your own shit. Same shit, different mask.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. In