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Quotes About Introspection

A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night…every day.
~ Ajahn Chah
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
~ Sam Peckinpah
Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?
~ Doug Stanhope
Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
~ Henry Adams
What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.
~ Emile M. Cioran
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?
~ Salvador Dali
It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.
~ Thom Yorke
I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?
~ Tupac Shakur
Woke up this morning with a wine glass in my hand. Who's wine, what wine, where the hell did I dine?
~ Peter Frampton
I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
~ Samuel Beckett
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
~ Salvador Dali
I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.
~ Philip Guston
Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion.
~ Cassandra Clare
If we are not willing to wake up in the morning and die to ourselves, perhaps we should ask ourselves whether or not we are really following Jesus.
~ Donald Miller
Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.
~ Billie Joe Armstrong
This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?
~ Anna Kamienska
"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
~ Marcus Aurelius
Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.
~ Frederick Buechner
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.
~ Drake Bell
Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]
~ Fernando Pessoa
Maybe one morning I'll wake up and step outside of myself to look back at the old me lying dead among the sheets.
~ Markus Zusak
I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see the morning
~ Laura Nyro
Ask: is what I'm doing and thinking right now bringing me closer to myself or farther away? Opening my heart or closing it? You have a choice.
~ Geneen Roth
I was making love to this girl and she started crying. I said, "Are you going to hate yourself in the morning?" She said, "No, I hate myself now."
~ Rodney Dangerfield