Quotes About Introspection

Mi ignorancia hacía mi victoria aún más insoportable, pero mi modestia y mi vergüenza aliviaban mis culpas.

But don't forget that arrogant men who think too much of themselves always end up alone.

just pop this one out, too

Evet, bütün dünya Türk'ün düÅŸman?d?r, ama Türk'ün en büyük düÅŸman? Türk'ün kendisidir.

why humanity has a spiritual need for a mirror (a custom-built mirror!) such as the novel.

In a smoky corner of my mind I was reminded of a truth drawn from bitter experience: immersing oneself in the problems of a book is a good way to keep from thinking of love.

a mitad de la cena, de repente me dijo que intuía que un día sería muy feliz. Y aquellas palabras me hicieron sentir con mayor claridad que se me había cerrado la posibilidad de ser feliz en la vida...

But we should search for the strange and surprising in the world, not within ourselves! To search within, to think so long and hard about our own selves, would only make us unhappy. This is what had happened to the characters in my story: for this reason heroes could never tolerate being themselves, for this reason they always wanted to be someone else.

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, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words.

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

Na konci dlhého d?a a ve?era, preplneného ?u?mi, môcÃ…Â¥ sedieÃ…Â¥ sám v kresle a byÃ…Â¥ samým sebou...Bolo to ako príchod z dlhej cesty plnej dobrodružstiev...ako návrat domov.

Cuidado com as coisas de que mais tarde pode se arrepender.

So this is how Mevlut came to understand the truth that a part of him had known all along: walking around the city at night made him feel as if he were wandering around inside his own head.

Toutes ces choses que j'avais apprises, auxquelles j'avais cru jusque-là, n'étaient plus que des détails dépourvus de tout intérêt, et des choses que j'ignorais surgirent des recoins où elles s'étaient terrées jusque-là et me lancèrent des signaux.

down your order.

Không có ni?m h?nh phúc nào lá»›n hÆ¡n khi m?t ??i m?t vá»›i chính sá»± t?i tàn và kh?n kh? c?a mình

Barakaya doÄŸru yürüyor, hafif bir utanç duyuyor, tasar?lar yap?yordu: Her sabah cimnastik yapacak, küçük de olsa insan? aÅŸa??layan ÅŸu göbeÄŸini eritecek, gövdesinin haml???n? giderecek, getirdiÄŸi bütün kitaplar? okuyacak, bir ÅŸeyler yazacak, düÅŸünecek eskiden olduÄŸu gibi saÄŸl?kl?, dengeli ve mutlu bir insan olarak NiÅŸanta??'ndaki evine dönecekti.

solo se arrepentía porque tuviera miedo, sino también

Llegué a la conclusión de que el lugar al que llamaban escuela en realidad no respondía a las preguntas verdaderamente importantes, sino que simplemente ayudaba a que las asumiéramos como parte integrante de la realidad de la vida, Por eso, hasta los años de instituto, tuve buen cuidado en levantar el dedo y permanecer en el lado cómo y tranquilo de la línea

Many years before, Ka had explained to me that when a good poet is confronted with difficult facts that he knows to be true but also inimical to poetry, he has no choice but to feel to the margins; it was, he said, this very retreat that allowed him to hear the hidden music that is the source of all art.

Evet, ama bir tiyatrocu! diye düÅŸündü. Bir aile ona ne kadar uzak!

Yirmi ya??mdan beri üzerimde beni her türlü beladan ve mutsuzluktan koruyan görünmez bir z?rh olduÄŸu duygusu vard? içimde. Bu duygunun bir yan?, bana baÅŸkalar?n?n mutsuzluÄŸuyla fazla meÅŸgul olman?n beni de mutsuz edebileceÄŸini ve z?rh?m?n delinmesine yol açabileceÄŸini sezdirirdi.

the hüzün the boy has carried with him since birth will lead the story into melodrama.

Our apartment was at the top of a tall building opposite Te?vikiye Mosque, and our bedroom windows looked out on many other families' bedrooms that resembled ours; since childhood I had found strange comfort in going to my dark bedroom to look into other people's apartments.