Quotes About Introspection

These beings have no other profession than to cultivate the idea of beauty in their person, to satisfy their passions, to feel and to think.

I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.

Women do not know how to separate the soul from the body.

Hypocrite lecteur—mon semblable—mon frère[Hypocrite reader—my double—my brother]!

There can be no progress (real, that is, moral) except in the individual and by the individual himself.

I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry.

What do I care that you are good?Be beautiful! and be sad!

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

If you're smart, you keep happiness to yourself.

All that caring about what happens next.' He waited. 'Now nothing happens next.

The worst mistakes I've made have been the ones directed by sweet-natured hopefulness.

There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

Literature is not an instruction manual.

Think When did it go wrong? The break-in? No, before that. The party? That was part of it, but that wasn't when it started. Zack? Of course, yeah, it would be easy to say it was Zack. But that's not it, is it? Before Zack. Before Ryan. Before Max and Derrick or that whole thing with the wallet. Before Ashley. Before tenth grade even began. And you're thinking, this can't be it.

The comfortable way to deal with these stories is to say they are about them The way to understand these stories is to say they are about us.

This scene is adapted to my temper. Its mountainous asperities supply me with images of desolation and seclusion, and its headlong streams lull me into temporary forgetfulness of mankind.

To know a man's favourite or most constant studies cannot fail of letting in some little light upon his secret thoughts.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.