Quotes About Introspection

Your life is always speaking to (for) you.

how does ego play in this situation?

Quando você não sabe o que fazer, o melhor conselho que posso lhe dar é: não faça nada até as coisas se tornarem mais claras. Ficar em silêncio, ser capaz de ouvir a própria voz e não as vozes do mundo a seu redor, ajudará você a alcançar a clareza mais rápido. Assim que decidir o que quer, comprometa-se com essa decisão.

Auf der Suche nach Antworten werden Sie etwas Wunderbares finden: sich selbst

Wenn Sie morgen sterben, welches Versäumnis werden Sie bereuen? Wenn morgen der letzte Tag Ihres Lebens wäre, würden Sie ihn so verbringen wie heute?

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.

Immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

And before long, the music, the views rushing past the window, my fathers voice and the narrow cobblestone streets all merged into one, and it seemed to me that while we would never find answers to these fundamental questions, it was good for us to ask them anyway.

every life is like a snowflake: individual existences might look identical from afar, but to understand one´s own eternally mysterious uniqueness one had only to plot the mysteries of one´s own snowflake.

All the happiness and beauty that life had to offer only revealed themselves when his mind drifted off into fantasies of a world far removed from his own.

The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

Like most Turkish men of my world who entered into this predicament, I never paused to wonder what might be going on in the mind of the woman with whom I was madly in love, and what her dreams might be; I only fantasized about her.

sometimes I wonder what my interior actually is. A heart that goes pitter-patter and thoughts that glide by like little paper boats on flowing water

I was trying to think of something to say that would sound more meaningful, but when you get down to it, words aren't very useful at baring our souls, they're just something else to hide behind.

La razón fundamental de mi soledad es que ni siquiera yo sé de qué historia formo parte.

The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

Ä°nsan ÅŸehirde kalabal?k içinde yaln?z olabilirdi ve ÅŸehri ÅŸehir yapan ÅŸey de zaten kalabal?k içinde insan?n kafas?ndaki tuhafl??? saklayabilme imkan?yd?.

As I was looking at myself in the bathroom mirror, it occurred to me that if all else failed, a man could at least kiss himself, and I stared in to the mirror, conjuring up the memory of the couple in the film. I couldn't get the image of their lips out of my mind. But by now I'd realised I'd not even be kissing myself; I'd be kissing the mirror.

BaÅŸkalar? doÄŸaya bak?nca orada kendi s?n?rlar?n?, yetersizliklerini, korkular?n? görürler. Sonra kendi zay?fl?klar?ndan korkup doÄŸan?n s?n?rs?zl???, büyüklüÄŸü, derler buna.

Más interesante era verme la nuca, algo que todavía me provoca un escalofrío haciéndome pensar que mi cuerpo es en realidad un extraño que hace años que llevo encima.