Quotes About Introspection

Do you hate people?" "I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying.

He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying." ?Charles Chaplin

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone

My ideal life is a quiet one. I like to read, to sit still in the same chair, with the lampshade at a certain angle, alone, or with Meagan nearby, and now and then, if I'm lucky, I'll come across a lovely phrase or fine sentiment, look up from my book, and feel the harmony of some notion, the justice of it, and know that everything is there. That's life to me, those privately discovered moments. I wouldn't settle for less, yet I don't expect a whole lot more, either.

You don't really want to crash down the whole universe just to satisfy your situational unease or your incapacity to see the whole picture, do you? You don't want a life based on your failure to understand life, right?

All by myself, wrapped in my thoughts,And building castles in Spain and in France.

A car to pick me up every day, a chair with my name on it, everybody being very polite... what can you do except sit back and watch it all, try to take it all in?

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

But I am very poorly today & very stupid & I hate everybody & everything. One lives only to make blunders.

I always thought I was Jeanne d'Arc and Bonaparte. How little one knows oneself.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Easy to break mirror; less easy to see oneself. (Facile de casser le miroir; - Moins facile de s'y voir.)