Quotes About Introspection

There was something of the beautiful failure about her.

I suppose I've always known that it's hard to be just one person. the key is in the door and it can always be opened.

The overexamined life... It's not worth living.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

If you are wise you step through the darkness only one foot at a time.

The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself.

The over examined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

It is, in the end, she thinks, the shallowest of confessions: all of the truth, none of the honesty.

He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father?

I was a raw, quiet child, and God was already a bore to me.

In the end you should probably know your characters as well as you know yourself. Not only what they had for breakfast this morning, but what they wanted to have for breakfast.

The most excellent jihad is that for the conquest of self.

you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said.

Their reflection in the glass. The water behind them stretched distant and black. I stood in the doorway a long, long time, unsure of what to do or say. I wasn't interested in their

Oh, the mind itself is a deep, deep well. Lower me down and let me touch water.

One corner to another. One more crack in the pavement. That's the way we all walk: the more we have to occupy our minds the better.

Very quiet and yet quieter living-for-ourselves.

different from who I thought myself to be.

It's probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

A person has to grow as a moral self in order to transcend this childlike subjectivity and primitive narcissism.

Quand on voir ce qu'on fut sur terre et ce qu'on lassie/ Seul le silence est grand tout le reste est faiblesse.

The world is the world... It is you that makes the horror.

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.