Quotes About Introspection

How do you know anything for sure? I thought. But i knew the answer to that already. You don't

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself

An active imagination is a wonderful thing. But it can also be a burden, if you focus too much on the dark side of the street.

For the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

I followed the adage that if you really want to learn about someone, you should just shut up and listen.

I sat on the kitchen stool long enough

Yours, neither.

every passing moment looking at the corpse, I became aware

Can we ever really judge behavior simply by the behavior itself.

What—" I began.

No, I called myself a loser," I said, and slammed my door. "Loser.

Are you basically a pretty good, pretty decent person? Says who? Says you? Says your 'rents? Says your sibs?

Most people will live their entire lives believing they know exactly who they are and what they're capable of. But that's only because most people will never have to find out for real.

Paul Richardson paused in his pacing around

great old time talking about cheeseburgers while I sat there thinking about how miserable my life was about to get. What did all this mean, exactly?

yourself in one of these cells.

headlights swung over and past me. I ignored them, staring

His first time in South Africa, and there's a desolate beauty here, if one has the time to appreciate it.

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I'm a very serious person. Unfortunately, sometimes.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Peace is a very poor aspiration. Unfortunately, even so-call spiritual leaders are going about saying that the ultimate goal of life is to find peace. Peace is a fundamental requirement. Why are you making it as the last thing in your life? It must be the first thing that happens to you.