Quotes About Introspection

She walked off into the night, sparkling with a clarity she'd never felt—and at the same time, carrying a dread so overwhelming that she feared it might crush her.

One of the problems with shutting down feeling is that we begin to live in our heads. We tell ourselves a story about what we think we're feeling or what we think we should be feeling rather than feeling our genuine emotions and allowing words to grow out of them so we can accurately describe our inner experience. When we can feel our feelings and then translate them into language, we can use our reasoning ability to play a role in regulating our emotional experience.

I can live a comfortable life. The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.

Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

You can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than re actions." - Loring Blackman

Tell me what you're afraid of,' Jacob said. Shit, I thought, this could take all day. My life was ruled by my fears.

Real annihilation happens from the inside out.

It drives me crazy when people know me well enough to remind me what I believe.

I went home feeling so unbearably alone I actually thought there was a possibility I could drop dead before the night was over.

Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.

I had the feeling I'd just found something I didn't even know I'd lost. We hovered above the moment like two rain clouds, until I said: "Don't swear off all fruit just because you ate one bad apple.

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not salvation.

He thought suffering was cool. He thought it made him a better writer.

How does that goddamn cliché go? If I'd known then what I know now. Or maybe I should have heeded the opposite warning. Maybe I should have delved a little deeper into then back when I was wandering aimlessly around now.

I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not as salvation.

Eliza, you can't judge a man solely on his actions. Sometimes actions are nothing more than reactions.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

When you don't have many friends and you don't have a social life you're kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There's a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you're part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the last men will look to them for explanations, or apologies.

isolated instances of beauty and in no urgent need of beholders.

Our sin warps our understanding because we all tend toward self-justification. Studying