Quotes About Introspection

After a while he said: It's not about knowin where you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. Or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm saying?

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did he see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

sometimes I think I would have found my life pretty funny if I hadnt had to live it.

NERO- Menomale che dici così, professore. Perché non ci trovo niente da ridere manco io. E' solo che ogni minuto che passa mi meraviglio di più. Ma possibile che non ti vedi, zuccherino? Sei trasparente come il vetro. Vedo le rotelline che ti girano dentro la testa. Gli ingranaggi. E vedo anche la luce. Una luce buona. Una luce vera. Tu non la vedi?

The moon was already a quarter ways up. All but day bright. He felt like something in a jar.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first, after this all other betrayals came easily

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.

I know your kind, he said. What's wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

When you're defenseless you keep your opinions to yourself.

A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

No matter the magnitude of your doubts about the nature of the world you can't come up with another world without coming up with another you. It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be.

Looking over the country with those sunken eyes as if the world out there had been altered or made suspect by what he'd seen of it elsewhere. As if he might never see it right again. Or worse did see it right at last. See it as it had always been, would forever be. The

It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.

You think sometimes I dont listen. I think you listen. I'm not so sure what you hear.

Am I a monster, are there monsters in me ?

He lay down in his blankets. It was growing dark, long late mid-summer twilight in the woods. He wanted to go down to the river to bathe but he felt too bad. He turned over and looked at the small plot of ground in the crook of his arm. My life is ghastly, he told the grass.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

It cracked and boomed about and he pointed out the darkened heart within him and cried for light. If there be any art in the weathers of this earth. Or char these bones to coal. If you can, if you can. A blackened rag in the rain. He sat with his back to a tree and watched the storm move on over the city. Am I a monster, are there monsters in me?

I've studied much and learned little.

when you close your eyes do I go away? Do you?