Quotes About Introspection

Why are you by yourself? I'm not by myself. I'm schizophrenic.

If you sincerely want to hear all about what is wrong with you and what you ought to do to rectify it all you need to do is let them inlaws on the place. You'll get a complete rundown on the subject and I guarantee it. She

Everything is painful to me. I think. Maybe I'm just a painful person.

When her aunt Helen came to visit she asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead.

I'm of two minds about this shit. Two minds. Yeah. I aint sure I'm cut out for domestic bliss. Probably not.

Well suppose you were ill at ease and didnt know why. Would that mean that you might be someplace you wasnt supposed to be and didnt know it? What the hell's wrong with you?

All writers are insane!

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

Everyone is small at night.

She'd been so certain she knew every crevice of his heart, but Jacob was like a country she'd only traveled through halfway.

Sometimes we think we know people at first sight," he said. "As though we'd met them a hundred times before, in another life, in another world. And then we realize that we know nothing. How did they look as children? What dreams startle them from their sleep?

She] did not reply. She didn't want to talk to anyone. She just wanted to listen to what her bewildered heart was telling her.

DER SPIEGEL ÖFFNET SICH NUR FÜR DEN, DER SICH SELBST NICHT SIEHT. Was sollte das bedeuten?

Was there any more wretched existence than the life of a writer who had run out of words?

It was funny how I could feel all alone and under surveillance at the same time.

I don't even know who I was crying for. Me? Sruthi? Both? "Can I give you a hug?" Tanisha was a trailblazer in the whole consent movement.

I don't think that the average person is sixty percent good and forty percent prick. I think that the average person sometimes kids himself that he's the center of the universe, and it's okay if he does something that he'd be pissed about if someone else did it to him, and tries not to think about it too hard.

It's our version of Christian guilt—it's impious to feel good about your piety. You have to want to be good, but not feel good about how good you are. The

The you that is you is actually the space of things that you might think in response to some stimulus.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

we are only human, a condition of perpetual uncertainty and failure.

How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.

I freely admit I'm confused. I'm a confused and troubled individual but at the same time...Its Free!