Quotes About Introspection

My point is, that if I'm honest, my life is all about me.

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

The worst aspect of loneliness was the silence.

Haunting her was the idea that we each summon our own death.

For the rest of my life, a different me will pick up this book again and again, read every page and never feel as if I've ever finished it because I myself am never finished

Fuck me. I'm so tired of being me.

I just didn't want to be fixed. Whatever my real problems might be, I didn't want them cured. None of the little secrets inside me wanted to be found and explained away. By myths. By my childhood. By chemistry. My fear was, what would be left?

These people who need their television or stereo or radio playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These are my neighbors. These sound-oholics. These quiet-ophobics.

People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves.

A cigarette, a sip, a question; breathing, drinking, and asking, she demonstrates all the basic applications for the human mouth.

Don't pretend for a moment that writing as a different person is evading reality. If anything it allows you a greater freedom to explore parts of yourself you wouldn't dare consciously examine.

You are your own favorite hobby. You're an expert on you.

As young people, she says, we want something to slow us down and keep us trapped in one place long enough to look below the surface of the world.

Der Gedanke hat seinen Reiz, dass ich längst dem Untergang geweiht war und dass alle, die ich liebte, mehr über mich wussten als ich selbst. Wenn dem so ist, bin ich von allem freigesprochen, was ich falsch gemacht habe. Ich bin wehrlos und ahnungslos, aber ohne Schuld.

Instead of writing about a character, write from within the character.

I am the cause of all my upsets. I am my worst enemy.

My mom would tell you, This is one of those Hamlet moments. Meaning: You need to make a significant effort to determine whether you're to be or not to be.

What I need to learn to do for myself. To write my own story.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them.

O auto-aperfeiçoamento talvez não seja a solução (...) a solução talvez seja a autodestruição.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention.

Lo que había visto en aquel instante ni siquiera era una montaña. No era un recurso natural. No tenía nombre. -Esa es la gran meta- dijo-. Encontrar una cura para el conocimiento.

Tal vez la autosuperación no se la respuesta. [...] Tal vez la autodestrucción sea la respuesta.

Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction...