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Quotes About Introspection

I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Can you move on from something when you're not sure what it is you're moving on from?
~ Gayle Forman
There came a time when you realised that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.
~ Stephen King, Doctor Sleep
Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.
~ Joyce Rachelle
I will look at the past, but I will not stare at it.
~ M. Spio, A Song for Carmine
Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Going back to something is harder than you think."I don't suppose I could have broken my mother's heart any more if I tried.
~ Mitch Albom, For One More Day
Ummmm hi" and my broken heart twitches in an attempt to start beating again
~ Yesenia Barkley
Life moves on but i want to live alone.
~ Daniel Martin
Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.
~ Bob Marley
Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.
~ Prince
Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!
~ Bob Marley
We don't play to be seen. I'm addicted to music, not audiences.
~ Miles Davis
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
~ Edith Sitwell
If I play you a piece of music, that's when you can truly look inside me.
~ Hans Zimmer
Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.
~ Frederic Chopin
Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.
~ Erik Satie
If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.
~ Joseph Haydn
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Music drives me insane, the incessant presence of music in my life. It informs how I see the world; it drives me crazy
~ Matthew Healy
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
~ Thomas Beecham
You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.
~ Annie Proulx
I'm dancing to the music of the madness inside me.
~ George C. Wolfe
The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at piano. I just go within.
~ Alice Coltrane