Quotes About Introspection

People say they are alone. But at who do they say that ? (Les gens disent qu'ils sont seuls. Mais à qui le disent-ils ?)

Silence is an ornament which is visible from the inside. (Le silence est une parure Qui se voit de l'intérieur)

The mark in the snow shows a weight. Who refuses his choices refuses oneself. (La marque dans la neige vit un poids. Se refuse qui refuse ses choix)

The mirror follows us, but it's not a friend. (Le miroir nous suit, - Mais n'est un ami.)

The noise hides the silence. It does not destroy the silence. (Le bruit cache le silence. - Il ne détruit le silence.)

We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)

We want the qualities of fools that our faults devour, then us. (Nous voulons qualités des fous - Que nos défauts dévorent, puis nous.) [Fables1, The Cheetah / Le Guépard]

The less men think, the more they talk.

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world...

It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.

That vague kind of penitence which holidays awaken next morning.

I ate umble pie with an appetite.

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

Keep yourself to yourself.

[S]he... paced the staircase-gallery outside, looked out of the window on the night, listened to the wind blowing and the rain falling, sat down and watched the faces in the fire, got up and watched the moon flying like a storm-driven ship through the sea of clouds.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

Not knowing how he lost himself, or how he recovered himself, he may never feel certain of not losing himself again.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own, yer know.

The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.

So, I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.