Quotes About Introspection

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And for a minute she became thoughtful, ac- complishing during that one minute, as sometimes hap- pens, a long leisurely journey: she set off into Luzhin's past, dragging Valentinov with her, visualizing him, from his voice, in horn rimmed spectacles and long-legged, and as she journeyed through the mi^t she looked for a spot where she could dump the slippery, repulsively wriggling Valentinov, but she could not find one because she knew almost nothing about Luzhin's youth.

In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.

But I want to make sure of our whereabouts and whenabouts,' said Van. 'It is a philosophical need.

Eis aqui, pois, a minha história. Eu a reli. Ela contém fragmentos de medula - e sangue, e belas e brilhantes moscas azuis. Neste ou naquele de seus volteios sinto que o meu escorregadio 'eu' me foge, deslizando para águas mais profundas e negras do que aquelas que me interessa perscrutar.

I watched, with the stark lucidity of a future recollection (you know—trying to see things as you will remember having seen them)

Solitude was corrupting me...My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

And what I say is not it, not quite it, and I am getting mixed up, getting nowhere, talking nonsense, and the more I move about and search in the water where I grope on the sandy bottom for a glimmer I have glimpsed, the muddier the water grows, and the less likely it becomes that I shall grasp it.

my own company being intolerable, since it excited me too much and to no purpose

The greater part of him was in a quite different place, while only an insignificant portion of it was wandering, perplexed.

One Cincinnatus was counting, but the other Cincinnatus had already stopped heeding the sound of the unnecessary count which was fading away in the distance; and, with a clarity he had never experienced before – at first almost painful, so suddenly did it come, but then suffusing him with joy, he reflected: why am I here? Why am I lying like this? And, having asked himself these simple questions, he answered them by getting up and looking around.

I want you to concentrate. You are going to die in a moment. The hereafter for all we know may be an eternal state of excruciating insanity. You smoked your last cigarette yesterday. Concentrate. Try to understand what is happening to you

I felt curiously aloof from my own self.

Can't decide whether dolly has exceptional emotional control or none at all.

Dobbiamo distinguere tra sentimentale e sensibile. Un sentimentale può essere, nelle ore libere, un autentico bruto.

oh, mi angustia..., ¿qué haré contigo, conmigo mismo?

neither being accustomed to his new fleshiness and insistence to sleep on one side only, so as not to hear his heart: he had made the mistake one night in 1920 of calculating the maximal number of its remaining beats (allowing for another half-century), and now the preposterous hurry of the countdown irritated him and increased the rate at which he could hear himself dying.

When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation, the act of attention might lead to our sinking involuntarily into the history of that object.

De kilheid van haar eigen hart verbaasde haar. Ze was een meer met onvermoede diepten, ijskoud was het water daar.

Zelfkennis is een groot goed, maar van zelfhaat is nog nooit iemand beter geworden.

Soy mi peor enemigo; normalmente soy yo el que me derroto a mí mismo.

When a man starts out to build a world, he starts first with himself.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.