Quotes About Introspection

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

Quelques secondes plus tard, son père entendit le bruit d'une porte qui se refermait, mais ce n'était pas un claquement de colère : c'était plutôt la séparation que l'on met volontairement, et sans heurt, entre soi-même et ceux que l'on ne parvient plus à comprendre.

Before we can ever learn to love one another as we would hope to do, we must first be willing to see that for too long we have loved only ourselves . . . and that even this has been done poorly.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

Toute relation soumise à une pression, même si son but est d'essayer de raccommoder les choses, finit toujours par se disloquer. Nous pouvons apprendre à faire mieux qu'à nous laisser diriger par cet esprit du moi malavisé. Nous pouvons apprendre à nous distancer de ses manigances autodestructrices.

The fear of being alone is born out of keeping company with parts of yourself that want you to feel incomplete so that they can lead you into one self-compromising relationship after another!

What we think we'll do is often not what we end up doing. It isn't always in our own control, our life.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Catriana sighed. "I'm hard to make friends with," she said at length. "I doubt it's worth your effort.

He could guess, analyze, play out scenarios in his mind, but he would never know. It was a night-time truth that became a queer, private sorrow for him amid all that came after. A symbol, a displacement of regret. A reminder of what it was to be mortal and so doomed to tread one road only and that one only once, until Morian called the soul away and Eanna's lights were lost. We can never truly know the path we have not walked.

Devin wondered how often men did what they did, made the choices of their lives, for reasons that were clean and uncomplicated and easily understood as they were happening

And it is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

The inner voice always had the hard questions.

The privacy of pride.

You had to grow into your own significance—or come to terms with the lack of it.

We like to believe, or pretend, we know what we are doing in our lives. It can be a lie. Winds blow, waves carry us, rain drenches a man caught in the open at night, lightning shatters the sky and sometimes his heart, thunder crashes into him bringing the awareness he will die.

There comes a point when life is not worth enduring if one steps back.

We can never truly know the path we have not walked.

Watching, letting the growth of wisdom guide him into silence

Everybody has lonely places

One day you look around and realize everyone in New York is younger than you are.